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short

/ʃɔrt/

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variant 1: shorter
variant 2: shorts

1 · adjective

primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration

小游

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The teacher used short games to make grammar practice more enjoyable.

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老师用小游戏增加语法练习的趣味。

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