Shorter

例句:

• If your crop comes shorter into market than any of theirs, you won't lose your bet, I suppose? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But we shall take a shorter cut through the furze than you can go with long clothes; so we won't trouble you to wait. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It is much shorter, and probably not quite so exact as that of the French taxes. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Shorter and easier. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Mrs. Murray made it, and it's sure to be right; it may be a straw's breadth shorter or longer-waisted, according to my having grown fat or thin. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• His legs were very robust, but shorter than legs of good proportions should have been. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• In many cases, it is preferable to exert a force of 30 pounds, for example, over the distance _CA_ than a force of 120 pounds over the shorter distance _BA_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Why, my limbs only made my breath shorter when I used 'em. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Long periods of slowness and stagnation have alternated with shorter or longer periods of prolific growth, and these with seasons of slumber and repression. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The approach end of the bed, approximately eighteen feet long, is constructed of maple, with each alternate strip of the 3 x 1-inch bed stock about eighteen inches shorter. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• McClernand was in person on the middle road and had a shorter distance to march to reach the enemy's position than McPherson. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I know a shorter way than that he has taken. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A short railway journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest residence of the great financier. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• This machine could do the work of many spinners, and in a much shorter time. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The more curved the lens, the shorter the focal length, and the nearer the focus is to the lens. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He did not see that whether he took the longer or the shorter road, no advance could be made in this way. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It was only after repeated experiments that it was learned that the shorter guns carried the projectile the greatest distance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• From San Francisco to Buenos Aires, via Valparaiso and Magellan, is approximately 7,610 miles, which is shorter than the route through the canal, by which the distance is 8,941 miles. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The shorter the pipe, the higher the pitch. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He had the shorter nose and longer upper lip of his sister rather than the fine traits of his brother. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• To think it out through the future, is a harder though a much shorter task than to think it out through the past. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The Union lines were shorter than those of the enemy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• When I paced one corridor and found it six feet shorter than the corresponding one below, it was pretty clear where he was. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It's shorter and simpler in Spanish. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• If the position of our front had not changed, the road which Wallace took would have been somewhat shorter to our right than the River road. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The other parties will take shorter journeys. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I heard a heavy puffing and blowing coming towards us, and soon Mr. Omer, shorter-winded than of yore, but not much older-looking, stood before me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The shorter the air column, the higher the pitch. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Besides, the oncoming material would thus be gradually raised in temperature instead of being heated abruptly, as in the shorter kilns. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Miss Trotwood, you had better stop this; or I'll stop your husband shorter than will be pleasant to you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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