shortest distance

常见例句

The great-circle distance calculates the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of a sphere.
大圆弧长计算球面两点之间的最短距离。
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".
面对一片反对的声浪时他会说：“孩子们哪，你们得明白，人和真理之间最短的距离就是故事。”
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.
切线是一条直线，刚好接触到曲线，所以跑切线是从一个弯道跑到另一个最短的距离。

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.
也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。
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They represent the shortest distance between new technology and real needs.
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