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Football ( Soccer ) is short for football game or football match.

足球是足球运动或足球比赛的简称.

This dress is a little too short for me.

这件衣服对我来说短了点.

In this book GK is short for Greek.

这本书中GK是希腊的缩写.

Short for binder utility, an operating-system program that performs binding.

联编实用程序的简称, 是一种能够实现联接和编辑的操作系统 级 的程序.

We need to give young criminals a short, sharp shock (= a punishment that is very unpleasant for a short time) .

对青少年罪犯我们需要给以短暂但严厉的惩处。

Call me Jo ─ it's short for Joanna.

叫我乔好了——这是乔安娜的简称。

That would be short for william, I imagine.

我想是威廉的简称吧。

"O.O.B.E." is short for "Out Of Body Experience".

O.O.B.E.是OutOfBodyExperience（身外体验）的缩略形式。

Ask the tailor to lengthen my coat because it is too short for me.

让裁缝把我的大衣放长些,我穿着太短了.

S . R . I is short for the system of rice intensification.

是水稻激化系统的缩写.

Her friend Kes ( short for Kesewa) was in tears

她的朋友凯斯（凯茜娃的简称）眼泪汪汪。

"Why don't you wear your jogging shorts Mum?" — "Well, my legs are too skinny, if you must know."

“妈妈，为什么不穿你的慢跑短裤呢？”——“哦，如果你非要问的话，因为我的腿太瘦了。”

Last year, we ran short for hamburgers at the family reunion.

去年，我们全家团圆的时候，汉堡包都不够吃了。

Certification authority ( short for CA) is the nature person or legal man that signs the digital certification and provides services related to the digital signature.

认证机构（CA，Certification Authority），是指签发电子证书、提供与电子签名相关的服务的自然人或法人。

Forty per cent of children under five in developing countries are short for their age because of undernourishment.

在发展中国家，5岁以下的孩子中有40%因为营养不良而身高偏低。

The phone jangled its two longs, one short for Drogheda.

电话铃响了二次长音, 一次短音,是打给德洛耶达的.

A prom, short for promenade is a formal dance.

舞会, 是promenade的简称,是正式的舞蹈.

NATO is short for North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

NATO是“北大西洋公约组织”的缩写.

The pencil is too short for me to use.

这铅笔太短我用不了.

Her friend Kes (short for Kesewa) was in tears.

她的朋友凯斯（凯茜娃的简称）眼泪汪汪。

Parting from any one of you for even a short time is hard...

离开你们中任何一个人哪怕只是一小段时间都舍不得。

The dog's fur was clipped short for the show.

为参加狗展把狗的毛剪短了.

She has always had a high reputation for her excellent short stories

她一直因其优秀的短篇小说享有很高的声望。

In York we had a short stop for refreshment.

在约克，我们稍作停留，吃了点东西。

While American credit cards use the 40-year-old magstripe technology to process transactions, much of the rest of the world uses smarter cards with a technology called EMV ( short for Europay, MasterCard, Visa) that employs a chip embedded in the card plus a customer PIN ( personal identification number) to authenticate every transaction on the spot.

虽然美国信用卡使用有40年历史的磁条技术来处理交易,但世界上大多数国家都使用更智能的卡,其技术名为EMV（Europay、MasterCard、Visa的缩写）,利用嵌入卡中的芯片加上一个客户PIN（个人识别码）来现场验证每笔交易。

The government is running short of hard currency to pay for imports.

政府目前缺少可以支付进口产品的硬通货。

E-sports is short for electronic sports.

在英文中，E-sports是电子竞技的简称。

Don't use the car for short journeys.

短途旅行就别开车。

Pearl fiber which is short for Pearl Mixed Regenerated fiber is co-researched by Donghua University and Shanghai New Spinning Technical Center and it has applied to National Invention patent in 2004 as a new type of functional fiber.

珍珠共混再生纤维素纤维（简称珍珠纤维）是由东华大学和上海新型纺纱技术开发中心合作共同研发的一种新型功能性纤维，并已于2004年申报了国家发明专利。

Page'sresponse to the suggestion that this might be sour grapes because his company lost the bid is: "Life's too short for that."

有人认为这是佩奇的酸葡萄心理在作怪，因为他的公司未能中标，佩奇对此的回应是：“人生苦短，谁有闲工夫去耿耿于怀呢？”