| 单词 | short-term |
| 释义 | short-term Word forms: shorter-term, shortest-term 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Short-term is used to describe things that will last for a short time, or things that will have an effect soon rather than in the distant future. Investors weren't concerned about short-term profits over the next few years. This is a cynical manipulation of the situation for short-term political gain. The company has 90 staff, almost all on short-term contracts. The short-term outlook for employment remains gloomy. There is no easy short-term solution to Britain's economic malaise. 2. singular noun B2 When you talk about what happens in the short term, you are talking about what happens over a short time rather than in the distant future. Collocations: short-term considerations They measure it by share price accretion, often driven by short-term considerations - in our case, a hostile takeover bid. Times, Sunday Times Professional investors are necessarily swayed by short-term considerations. Times, Sunday Times Apart from short-term considerations such as a collapse in their share prices and a worrying drop in interest among buyers, they face an even bigger long-term challenge. Times, Sunday Times Research respondents were not generally seeking radical improvements to their finance functions with the short-term cost of change contributing to this thinking. Times, Sunday Times Our towns and cities have declined architecturally because we have forgotten civic traditions, and buildings are considered a short-term cost rather than whole-life value. Times, Sunday Times Short-term cost control, an innocuous-sounding term with farreaching effects, may come to represent the opening skirmish. Times, Sunday Times Seismic decisions on sovereignty can have a severe short-term cost while making perfectly good sense over a generation. Times, Sunday Times We should call these grasshoppers' bluff, even at some short-term cost. Times, Sunday Times Economists believe that businesses are taking on staff to meet short-term demand instead of committing themselves to long-term investment. Times, Sunday Times Most economists expect last week's vote to cause a short-term demand shock and a long-term supply shock. Times, Sunday Times Almost everyone believed it was better to leave short-term demand manipulation to monetary policy and interest rates. Times, Sunday Times He makes it sound alluring, and attainable, but it remains to be seen if it can withstand the usual buffeting, the brickbats, the short-term demand for wins. Times, Sunday Times However, the company's issuance of new shares at 76p only two months ago may curb short-term demand. Times, Sunday Times Nor are we looking at much short-term improvement. Times, Sunday Times Economists forecast that there will soon be one million 16 to 24-year-olds unemployed, with little prospect of any short-term improvement given the slow rate of growth. Times, Sunday Times That warning was followed yesterday by another downbeat assessment of the coming months as the company said that there would be no short-term improvement in the trading environment. Times, Sunday Times However, ths southern clubs now being less well-off would make no short-term improvement in the club's finances, because contracts for the coming season had already been agreed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most targets are for short-term improvements in service delivery, with little incentive for any long-term investment in training. Times, Sunday Times He also will be eligible for long-term and short-term incentive schemes. Times, Sunday Times In addition, he received 1.928 million as a short-term incentive bonus. Times, Sunday Times Through accidents of history, and the pursuit of narrow self-interest, institutional investors are driven by short-term incentives that fail to match our long-term need. Times, Sunday Times Reducing the short-term incentives for executives could give the broader economy a significant boost. Times, Sunday Times The government should issue a sovereign green bond and offer short-term incentives to boost the green consumer loans and mortgage markets. Times, Sunday Times First was the short-term need to get banks lending again to ensure that companies have working capital. Times, Sunday Times One fulfilling a short-term need, the other earmarked for the future - an odd couple, indeed. Times, Sunday Times If a buy-side institution adds liquidity in the open market, a prop desk at a bank may want to take that liquidity because they have a short-term need. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Suppliers buy power on this market to meet short-term needs if, for example, a sudden cold snap prompts customers to turn up their heating. Times, Sunday Times Equally, the expectation that prices would carry on rising prompted farmers to buy beyond their short-term needs, giving a corresponding boost to volumes. Times, Sunday Times This short-term option has long-term consequences for victims and their families. Times, Sunday Times Nor should it be interpreted as quite the short-term option that it seems. Times, Sunday Times He was looked at as a short-term option weeks but pulled out as he wanted a lengthy deal. The Sun Nowadays there are various flexible and short-term options besides taking a traditional lodger. Times, Sunday Times There has also been short-term pressure on supply because of a number of natural disasters. Times, Sunday Times They do not face short-term pressure to maximise profits. Times, Sunday Times So whatever the short-term pressures on public spending, education must remain a long-term priority. Times, Sunday Times However, the act has served one purpose: it demonstrates that constitutional change should not be made in haste, and in response to short-term pressures. Times, Sunday Times It would also be free from the risk-averse, short-term pressures that its supporters say are infecting mainstream banks. Times, Sunday Times Furthermore, when up-and-outers have success at a short-term project, they become more likely to adjust their schedules to make longer-term commitments. Christianity Today I don't see this as a short-term project. The Sun Unless you are embarking on a short-term project such as interior decorating or renovating the kitchen, there should be no reason to hire a space to store clutter. The Sun There are those within the club who fear he views this job as a short-term project. Times, Sunday Times Therefore, the challenge of short-term projects motivates them better. Christianity Today He believes compensation packages that rely on year-to-year results will have to go, in favour of more long-term arrangements that do not encourage short-term risk. Times, Sunday Times The report comes the day after finance ministers from the world's most powerful economies said they wanted bonuses to reflect long-term performance rather than one year's short-term risk taking. Times, Sunday Times You might think investors with long-term goals should put all their money into assets they expect to deliver the highest returns, no matter what the short-term risk. Times, Sunday Times The short-term risk was that any delay, such as problems with infrastructure or third party suppliers, and it was the developer who lost out. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But myopically placing too much emphasis on the short-term risks creating more problems than it solves. Times, Sunday Times Could it be that longevity swaps are just a short-term solution? Times, Sunday Times It's a shallow, short-term solution to the long-term problem of our depleted energy supply and its spiralling cost. The Sun Things like help-to-buy schemes are fine as a short-term solution, but they are not the right long-term answer. Times, Sunday Times However, rearranging the gallery was only a short-term solution, he said. Times, Sunday Times It's just that we need a short-term solution. The Sun But these are not measures that will give short-term stimulus to demand. Times, Sunday Times Any more would be another short-term stimulus the market can ill afford. Times, Sunday Times Fiscal activism — cutting taxes or boosting spending to give the economy a short-term stimulus — had fallen into disuse. Times, Sunday Times They are used to working towards the short-term stimulus of their next game, but they do not know when their next game will be. Times,Sunday Times That might deliver a short-term stimulus, but at the risk of accumulating further debt without boosting productivity or the economy's capacity to repay that debt. Times, Sunday Times Bring in young players that will sustain the club for years rather than signing veterans for short-term success. The Sun Meanwhile, as in banking, short-term success shortcircuits criticism, ethical or aesthetic. The Times Literary Supplement It also points to the narrow vision of small-town politicians and cautions us about scientific experiments, which often proclaim great short-term success, but leave us with long-term social consequences. ST Given that people will need to work in different ways for some time if they are to work at all, investment and innovation will be fundamental to our short-term success. Times,Sunday Times The fact that he has such a young team means the club are focused on long-term development as well as short-term success. The Sun Short-term survival may mean taking some hard decisions, but these must not conflict with medium-term goals or the company will face further threats. Times, Sunday Times Although many firms are focused on short-term survival, they must be prepared for the increasingly changing, client-focused and more competitive legal market that lies ahead. Times, Sunday Times The government was 'willing to mortgage the country for its own short-term survival', he said. Times, Sunday Times For the sake of short-term survival, the prime minister seems determined to stick to traditional tramlines. Times, Sunday Times To retreat would mean short-term survival. Times, Sunday Times Suddenly, she had to articulate not only principles, but policies, and to devise both long-term strategies and short-term tactics for bringing them to pass. Times, Sunday Times These short-term tactics influence strategy, which in turn should relate to the political ends. Times, Sunday Times This was a triumph of long-term strategy over short-term tactics. The Sun That would certainly be a welcome shift from the previous attachment to short-term tactics, resulting in the incoherent fire-fighting that has proved either ineffective or positively counterproductive. Times, Sunday Times Our findings suggest that centre-left parties in all four countries — and, by extension, across the developed world — need to rethink their long-term vision as well as their short-term tactics. Times, Sunday Times Know not only your short-term target, but also where you're heading. The Sun Moreover, unrealistic short-term targets for the primary budget surplus (now certainly a deficit) have been tempered. Times, Sunday Times You can plan in advance what you can win in two years as well as set out short-term targets. The Sun Bonuses, with their short-term targets and rewards, lower the risks of raising prices and raise the risks of investment. Times, Sunday Times Several of the reasons why the company would not reach those short-term targets were already in the market. Times, Sunday Times People will rightly look back on today's announcement and say it was a big mistake, driven by short-term thinking and political expediency. Times, Sunday Times Respondents feel that financial pressures encourage too much short-term thinking. Times, Sunday Times But with short-term owners you will get short-term managers - and short-term thinking. The Sun Such a sighting makes people aware of the fragility of the planet and the folly of our short-term thinking. Times, Sunday Times The removal of relegation would abolish short-term thinking, enabling exposure for young, home-grown players. Times, Sunday Times Yet short-term volatility masks the unmistakable longer-term trend; that stock market investments tend to provide better returns than cash. Times, Sunday Times This means that, right now, where other people might see short-term volatility, we see long-term buying opportunities. Times, Sunday Times The risk of a switch out of the stock market's more defensive sectors may also leave the shares subject to short-term volatility. Times, Sunday Times Advisers do not generally recommend you stick solely with a special-situations fund because of the short-term volatility. Times, Sunday Times Short-term volatility in share prices should not dictate investment decisions. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 短期的 Japanese: 短期的な |
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