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  1. 大致情况;要旨

    一般后接of

    The speech went on for hours, but the long and short of it is that not much has changed since last year.

    演讲持续了几个小时,但是它的主题较去年没有多大变化。

    Shepard: What's your relationship with Cerberus? Zaeed: Easy. Cerberus is paying me a lot of money to help you on your mission. That's the long and short.

    2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, via PC, →OCLC, scene: Omega:
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the long and the shortalternative
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