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)算球面兩點(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".
面對(duì)一片反對(duì)的聲浪時(shí)他會(huì)說(shuō)：“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(xiàn)是一條直線(xiàn)，剛好接觸到曲線(xiàn)，所以跑切線(xiàn)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(shuō)，實(shí)用語(yǔ)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(chēng)，或詩(shī)意的語(yǔ)言，他們有時(shí)也會(huì)這么叫,新批評(píng)派成員一定會(huì)這么稱(chēng)呼，使我們的理解速度慢了下來(lái)。
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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面及不同氣候條件下,均能在最少時(shí)間和最短距離內(nèi)使車(chē)輛制動(dòng)停車(chē)。
數(shù)學(xué)
最短距離
最短視距