On highways, traffic snakes grow if cars are eaten faster than excreted, and they shrink if excreted faster than eaten, dying when the last car accelerates away before the next car must stop.

在高速公路上，如果汽车被“吃掉”比“排泄”快，贪吃蛇变长，反之变短，当最后一辆车在后车刹车前加速，“贪吃蛇”就会消失。

What word actually becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

什么单词在加两个字母后反而变短了？

Longer nights, shorter days, all of that leads to a chemical imbalance in the brain.

夜晚变长，白天变短，所有这些都会导致大脑中的化学物质失衡。

Camp must be broken. The long trail waited while the short day refused to delay.

他们得去寻找新的打猎场所，长途跋涉就要开始了，北部地区的白昼在变短。

From what researchers could tell, Scott's telomeres weren't shorter in space.

从研究人员的报告中得出，斯科特的端粒在太空中并未变短。

These autumn days will shorten and grow cold.

天的白昼要变短，天气要变冷。

And it turns out, stress may actually accelerate the shortening of these telomeres.

而实际上，压力会加速这些端粒变短。

As the weeks went by, the days grew longer, the nights grew shorter.

几周之后，白天更长了，夜晚变短了。

Days are getting shorter and temperatures are plummeting.

日照变短，气温骤降。

I wonder if it was an American missile falling a bit short.

我想知道美国的核导弹改良后是不是变短了一些。

To trim something means to cut it in some way to make it shorter.

修剪某物意味着以某种方式切割它，使其变短。

Then we'll come back and see if the line's any shorter, yeah?

然后回来再看看队伍有没有变短？

Diners in Paris report the sudden appearance of shorter menus, as restaurants adapt their kitchens to staff shortages, as well as the presence of improbably young (and ungrumpy) fresh recruits now waiting at tables en terrasse.

巴黎的用餐者报告说，巴黎的用餐者报告说，由于餐厅调整了他们的厨房以适应员工短缺的情况，菜单突然变短了，同时不可思议地出现了年轻(且性情温和)的新员工，正在露天座的桌子旁等待。

Another popular hairstyle for men is a crew cut and this is where your hair will be longer on the top of your head and on your sides you might have a fade or it might be tapered.

另一种流行的男性发型是平头，这种发型是头顶的头发会更长，侧面可能有渐层或可能是逐渐变短的。

Children with FAS may also have certain facial characteristics, like small palpebral fissures, which means reduced distance between the two sides of an eye, smooth, or flat philtrum, and a thin vermillion border, which is the border of the lip.

FAS患儿有一定的面部特征，如眼裂短小，即一只眼睛两侧间的距离变短；人中平滑；以及较细的唇红缘（即嘴唇的边界）。

Or there's certain birds that show up in the fall and it's that first sign that things are going to get colder and the days are getting shorter.

或者有一些鸟类在天出现，这是天气变冷，白天变短的第一个迹象。

It's also important to get an electrocardiogram, which typically shows tall, peaked T waves with a narrow base best seen in the precordial leads V1 through V6, as well as a shortened QT interval, and ST-segment depression.

做心电图检查也十分重要，一般情况下显示高、尖、窄基底T波，在心前区V1到V6导联最容易见到，同时QT间隙长度变短，ST段压低。

All we're doing here is giving you a little bit of grammar to help you understand a deeper meaning and get you to a point where you can make the long into the short.

我们要做的就是帮助你理解更深层的含义，并且让你能够把长句变短。

To make matters worse, though, smoking makes the cilia short and less mobile, making it harder to move mucus up and out of bronchioles towards the back of the throat to get swallowed.

更糟糕的是，吸烟使纤毛变短，移动幅度更小，使之更难将黏液排送出细支气管，未能抵达咽部被吞咽。

In her prepared remarks, the first lady said she knows that magic, wonder and joy can be hard to find, especially as the days grow shorter, the weather turns colder.

在准备好的讲话中，第一夫人说，她知道魔法、奇迹和喜悦很难找到，尤其是在白天变短，天气变冷的时。