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"Short of" nghĩa là gì?
01 Jan, 2016
Implosion of SRS K Cooling Tower. Photo courtesy Savannah River Site.
'Short of' nghĩa là chưa đến mức mà (not reaching as far as); ngoại trừ việc... thì... (without going so far as (some extreme action)); apart from, other than, aside from, besides, except (for), excepting, without, excluding, not counting, save (for)); ngoài ra còn có nghĩa ít hơn (less than).
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He died at sixty-one, four years short of his pensionable (được nhận lương hưu) age.
A rocket failure left a satellite tumbling in an orbit far short of its proper position.
Short of putting out an all-persons alert, there's little else we can do.
Short of searching everyone, there is nothing we can do.
Prospects for any kind of international order—indeed, for human survival—now urgently required the amelioration (làm cho tốt hơn, cải thiện), if not elimination, of major-power conflict. A theoretical limit was sought—short of the point of either superpower using the entirety of its military capabilities. Strategic stability was defined as a balance in which neither side would use its weapons of mass destruction because the adversary was always able to inflict an unacceptable level of destruction in retaliation.
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