short-circuit

基本解释

What do you do if you want to short-circuit the process and make a million bucks in a couple of years?
如果你想缩短这个过程，几年就赚100万，你该做什么呢？
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.
无论对于哪一种软件来说，缩短用户学习曲线的能力对于该软件的推广及其能否取得成功都是至关重要的。
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.
您也许会写出更多的测试案例，但是请设想一下清单 7 中不确定的条件有不止一个的缩短操作会如何。

It must struggle against events which would help to achieve its goal too rapidly--by a kind of short-circuit.
它会在危险中挣扎,因为危险会太早把它带到终点。
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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.