shortest distance

常見例句

The great-circle distance calculates the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of a sphere.
大圓弧長計算球麪兩點之間的最短距離。
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".
麪對一片反對的聲浪時他會說：“孩子們哪，你們得明白，人和真理之間最短的距離就是故事。”
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彎道跑到另一個最短的距離。

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，實用語言以最短的距離,聯(lián)系兩點，而文學性，如形式主義者所稱，或詩意的語言，他們有時也會這麼叫,新批評派成員一定會這麼稱呼，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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They represent the shortest distance between new technology and real needs.
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