Call me Jo—it's short for Joanna.

叫我乔好了—这是乔安娜的简称。

Her friend Kes (short for Kesewa) was in tears.

她的朋友凯斯（凯斯瓦的简称）在流泪。

Not just short, but far too short for his body.

不只是短，对他的身体来说简直太短了。

E-Sports is short for electronic sports.

E-Sports 是电子竞技的缩写。

The word piano is short for pianoforte, a combination of the Italian words for soft and loud.

Piano（钢琴）这个词是 pianoforte（钢琴）的简称，是意大利语中“柔和”和“响亮”两个词的组合。

Chanson poems became popular in Europe, particularly in France, and the term is actually short for a longer French phrase.

香颂诗歌在欧洲流行起来，尤其是在法国，而这个词实际上是一个较长的法语短语的缩写。

Will is short for William.

威尔是威廉的简称。

Life's too short for this.

生命很短暂，不能这样过。

Man is short for manual.

man是manual的缩写。

And the pants were too short for his legs.

而裤子对于他的腿来说太短了。

Jo: Well, chugger is short for charity mugger.

Yang Li: 你说的 charity 我知道这是慈善机构, 不过我还是不明白 chugger 是什么意思。

So he's really, really short for a basketball player.

所以作为篮球运动员,他又很矮很矮

Topo: Short for toponym (see the GeoNames documentation).

topo： toponym的缩写(参见geonames文档)。

I guess it suits me, so I've kept it short for like, forever.

梁咏琪说道：“我觉得短发很适合我，所以我会保持短发，永远。”

The medical profession calls it tatt, short for "tired all the time".

医学界称之为TATT，是“tired all the time”(意思是：一直很累)的缩写。

Investigators found that the runway chosen was too short for the type of plane.

调查人员发现跑道太短，不适合这种飞机起降。

Ways that some things fail and fall short for ways that might and should be.

事物失败或缺乏的方式成为，可能或必须。

Another crit was that the game play was surprisingly short for the hype generated.

遭到批评的的另一点是相对于其宣传力度，这款游戏要通关实在是太短了！

The word karaoke breaks down as kara meaning “empty” and oke short for okesutora.

卡拉OK（karaoke）一词可分解为"Kara"：意指“空”；以及“oke”--“okesutora”的简称。

It's known as MORIS, short for Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System.

它被人们称为MORIS（移动罪犯识别和信息系统的缩写）。

The term scrum originated in the game of rugby as short for scrummage or scrimmage.

术语 scrum 来源于橄榄球活动，是 scrummage 或者 Scrimmage 的缩写。

A second excavation, in 1985, lasted a year and was cut short for technical reasons.

第二次挖掘是在1985年，因为技术原因持续了一年就突然停止了。

“Revenue fell a little bit short for us, so plenty of work still to do, ” Morse said.

收益略低于预期，因此我们尚有很多工作要做。

That's GTD, short for "Getting Things Done," the prosaic title of his best-selling book.

这就是GTD，“尽管去做”的简称，同时也是他的畅销书的朴实无华的标题。

The df tool is actually short for disk free, and that is precisely what the tool shows.

df 工具实际上是 disk free 的缩写，并且这也正是该工具所显示的内容。

Use the cat (short for concatenate) command to display the contents of a file on stdout.

使用cat (concatenate的简写)命令显示文件在使用标准输出时的内容。