ACT used to be short for American College Testing.

ACT以前是美国大学入学考试的缩写。

Van Persie, Diaby and Eduardo we believe have a little, little, little chance but they could all be short for Tuesday.

范佩西，迪亚比和爱德华多，我们相信他们只有很小，很小，很小机会，但是他们都可能在周二比赛无法出场。

The vehicle Antilock Braking System (be short for ABS) has been widely applied on the vehicles, in order to improve the safety.

为提高汽车行驶安全性，制动防抱死系统(简称abs)在汽车上得到了广泛应用。

S-EVwould be short for seawater electric vehicle, only of course you're not dumpingbuckets of seawater into your car, you're driving a fuel cell EV (FCEV) thatruns on hydrogen derived from seawater.

S-EV是海水电动车的简称，当然，你不是要将海水倒在车里，而是因为你驾驶的燃料电池电动车（FCEV）的燃料来自于海水。

For example, we think that short boys can't possibly be good basketball players.

例如，我们认为矮的男孩不可能成为好的篮球运动员。

Sunshine will be in short supply for the west coast.

西海岸将不会有充足的阳光。

The electric company, whose monopoly may be short-lived, has suddenly mopped requiring users to wait half a day for a repairman.

这家电力公司的垄断地位可能是短暂的，但突然之间，它要用户等半天才能找到修理工。

The electric company, whose monopoly may be short lived, has suddenly mopped requiring users to wait half a day for a repairman.

这家电力公司的垄断地位可能是短暂的，但突然之间，它要用户等半天才能找到修理工。

For those that can't be here, I thought I'd share the prep questions and my short answers with you.

对那些无法到场的人，我觉得我应该分享这些准备的问题，并附上简短的回答。

A country lacking short-term liquidity would be loth to approach the IMF for a loan under the "stand-by arrangement", the mainstay of the IMF's crisis lending.

一个缺乏短期流动性的国家可能不愿向国际货币基金组织寻求“备用信贷协议”——IMF 危机贷款的中流砥柱。

Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.

即使有些人缺少时间和金钱，我们也应当鼓励他们为自己和他们的家人做饭。

There will always be a handful of urgent and important issues that arise, causing our schedules to be chaotic for short periods.

总是会有一大堆紧急而且重要的事情发生，使得我们的时间表短时间内产生混乱。

The quote should not be binding and only be valid for a short period of time.

报价不应该是固定的，应该只在短期内有效。

Firstly, no accomplishment can be achieved in a short time, and success asks for continuous industrious work and efforts.

第一，没有任何成就是可以在短时间内达到的，而是需要持续的勤奋工作和努力。

A property can even be "milked" for short periods of time by deferring maintenance, but that is not a wise long-term strategy.

房地产的款项甚至可以通过推迟保养而暂为“挪用”，可这从长期来讲，却不是一个明智的策略。

Other ideas would be to record a short video for them using a camera and leaving it for them at the breakfast table.

别的念头比如用相机为他们录一小段录相，放在餐桌上，这样子他们吃早餐时能看到。

In the short term, companies would be grateful for any equity capital they could raise from retail investors, so they could bolster their balance-sheets.

短期看，公司会为从散户那里筹集的股票资产感到欣慰，所以他们可以强化他们的资产负债表。

They'll claim that those cuts would be good for America in both the short term and the long term.

他们将会声称，这些削减无论从长期还是短期看，对美国都有好处。

While not too bad for a short conversation, for something longer, it will be a real performance problem.

虽然对于较短的对话影响不大，但是如果对话很长，性能问题就显现出来了。

Since the defragment operation may run quickly, especially for smaller tables, the defragment information may be available for only a short period of time.

由于碎片整理操作可能运行得很快，特别对于小表更是如此，所以只能在很短的时间内看到碎片整理信息。

Sunrise rays are short-lived and can be rewarding to spot for Moon enthusiasts with telescopes.

这种光线存在时间很短，是对用望远镜观察月球的爱好者的酬赏。

As a result, job status queries may be incorrect for a short time.

结果是，在短时间内作业状态查询可能会不正确。

There are no ready-made solutions for effective migration policy, yet one possible route might be to combine short-term migration with incentives for return or circular migration.

当前的人口迁移政策中没有解决这一问题的现成方案，但一条可能的出路是将短期流动同鼓励回国措施或循环式流动结合起来。

Such commercials may be short on answers but, for all their crudity, they raise the questions that most trouble American voters: “Are we winning in Iraq?

这样的选举广告虽拙于作答，但说的都是事实，这样的真相提出了最困扰美国选民的问题：“我们在伊拉克胜利了吗？”

The life of constant short term challenges will be rewarding and balanced for you.

短期目标所构成的生活将会非常值得，而且对你来说很均衡。

The website must be delivered in a short time frame, no time for training.

而这个网站又必须在短时间内交付，没有时间进行培训。

Constructive Disengagement - Full engagement is using all of your resources and can only be maintained for a short burst.

建设性脱离-全部参与是使用你的所有资源，并只能维持短期突发。

Be prepared for awkward, or strange questions. Be ready to calmly answer these with simple short answers.

准备好迎接诡异或者奇怪的问题吧，一定要冷静并且简洁地回答它们。