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• His reputation, they assured him, though built in such a short time, had endured .
  他们告诉他，他的名声，虽然在那么短的时间内建立起来的，却已经站住了。
• A short, a very short time, however, must now decide what willoughby's intentions were .
  无论如何，只须一段短的，非常短的时间，就可以搞清楚威洛比的打算是什么。
• To detect shorter wavelengths, astronomers must put instruments above the earth's atmosphere .
  要探测到更短的波长，天文学家们就必须把仪器送到地球大气层以外去。
• Light enters and leaves at right angles to the hypotenuse and is reflected at each of the shorter faces .
  光垂直地入射和出射于棱镜的斜面，而在每一个较短的面上反射。
• The evidence seemed inescapable that light consisted of electromagnetic waves of extremely short wavelength .
  光是由波长极短的电磁波组成，这一事实看来已经证据确凿。
• Its most durable isotope survives only about 200, 000 years-a minute span on a stellar scale .
  最持久的同位素只能存在大约二十万年--这在恒星的尺度上是一个很短的时间。
• For the study of impact problems, very short exposure times and high picture repetition rates are required .
  为了研究冲击问题，需要很短的曝光时间和较高的画幅移动速率。
• This reversal of the roles is incompatible with our physical record that one meter stick is shorter than the other .
  这种地极的互换和一根杆比另一根杆短的物理记录是矛盾的。
• Zanders was a little man, dark, with a short stubby mustache, and a shrewd though not highly intelligent eye .
  单特斯是一个黑矮子，长着粗短的胡子，狡猾而并不十分聪明的眼睛。
• The vagaries of collection over 12 hours are so great that shorter collecting periods are preferable .
  收集时间超过12小时发生难以预测的变异会太大，以采用较短的收集时间为好。