shortest distance

基本解釋

The great-circle distance calculates the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of a sphere.
大圓弧長(zhǎng)計(jì)算球麪兩點(diǎn)之間的最短距離。
To all their objections he would say, "You have yet to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between a human being and Truth is a story".
麪對(duì)一片反對(duì)的聲浪時(shí)他會(huì)說：“孩子們哪，你們得明白，人和真理之間最短的距離就是故事?！?/li>
A tangent is a straight line that just touches a curve, so the concept of "running the tangents" is to run the shortest distance possible by running straight from one curve to the next.
切線是一條直線，剛好接觸到曲線，所以跑切線是從一個(gè)彎道跑到另一個(gè)最短的距離。

The shortest distance between Missouri and California was across the central part of the country.
In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.
也就是說，實(shí)用語言以最短的距離,聯(lián)系兩點(diǎn)，而文學(xué)性，如形式主義者所稱，或詩(shī)意的語言，他們有時(shí)也會(huì)這麼叫,新批評(píng)派成員一定會(huì)這麼稱呼，使我們的理解速度慢了下來。
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These merit selections could have been the shortest distance to gender parity in the judiciary.
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That portion of the Texas-Mexico border is the shortest distance from Central America.
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最短距離
The Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) is required to stop the vehicle by using the least brake time and the shortest distance under different road surface and climate conditions.
防抱死制動(dòng)控制要求在各種不同路麪及不同氣候條件下,均能在最少時(shí)間和最短距離內(nèi)使車輛制動(dòng)停車。
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最短距離
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