短路：在正常电路中电势不同的两点不正确地直接碰接或被阻抗（或电阻）非常小的导体接通时的情况。短路时电流强度很大，往往会损坏电气设备或引起火灾。
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... short-out 捷径 Short films out of competition 非竞赛类短片 Hanging Lines Short Out 吊线短掉 ...
... short of 缺乏；不足；短于 short out 短路 short piece 短节 ...
[电]短路
This month, romance seems best on short out of town trips not too far from home.
这个月看起来浪漫会发生在离家不远的短途旅行中。
The electrician explains that if the rat’s tail touches metal while it’s chewing on the wires, it’s enough to short out the fuse.
电工解释道，如果老鼠在咬线时，它的尾巴与金属接触就肯定可以将保险丝短路。
The wires had short-circuited and burnt out.
电线短路，烧坏了。
The men who had forced Luke Short out of town decided to negotiate a settlement.
VOA : special.2010.03.10
Too much, there's no spark. Too little, you short out. Right?
若间隙太大，不会有火花，若间隙太小，会短路，是吧？
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It's deliberate that a lot of the examples in lecture are fairly short and bite-size so that you can actually focus on pulling out the key ideas without getting distracted by line and lines of code.
很多的演讲中的例子,是短小的,因此你们可以集中于提取其中的主要思想,而不是被一行行的代码给分心。
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But he says the education system is "falling short" and "countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow."
VOA : special.2009.07.30
"Let's hope that that is a short term, temporary situation and that BP will revert to paying their dividends out in full."
VOA : standard.2010.06.18
In a statement, Burns said he fought the good fight and came up just a bit short - about 3, 400 votes short out of a little under 400, 000 cast.
Here are two credible threats to global systems: a massive cyber attack that could spread to the rest of world and interfere with SCADA systems everywhere and carbon whiskers that could short out power transmission systems.
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With this in mind, spa breaks and short out-of-town vacations are wonderful ways to reward the hard work that mothers undertake each day, while providing them with a break from the rigorous and strenuous routines of everyday life.