short-circuit

基本解釋

What do you do if you want to short-circuit the process and make a million bucks in a couple of years?
如果你想縮短這個過程，幾年就賺100萬，你該做什么呢？
For any piece of software, the ability to short-circuit a user's learning curve is critical to the adoption and success of that piece of software.
無論對于哪一種軟件來說，縮短用戶學(xué)習(xí)曲線的能力對于該軟件的推廣及其能否取得成功都是至關(guān)重要的。
You probably would have written a few more test cases than I did, but imagine if that dubious conditional in Listing 7 had more than one short-circuit operation.
您也許會寫出更多的測試案例，但是請設(shè)想一下清單 7 中不確定的條件有不止一個的縮短操作會如何。

It must struggle against events which would help to achieve its goal too rapidly--by a kind of short-circuit.
它會在危險中掙扎,因為危險會太早把它帶到終點。
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This could have a major impact on how disputes are handled and could help short-circuit some battles.
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Investors understand this on one level, but on another level their emotions can short-circuit their common sense.
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What if entrepreneurs short-circuit the quest for pure knowledge--that is, pull the technology out before the research is over?
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If an electrical device short-circuits or if someone or something short-circuits it, a wrong connection or damaged wire causes electricity to travel along the wrong route and damage the device.
Short-circuit is also a noun.
If someone or something short-circuits a process or system, they avoid long or difficult parts of it and use a quicker, more direct method to achieve their aim.