short list
短名单,短列表,短表,简要名单
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- : a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
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When Krzyzewski went to summer camps to scout, he had a very short list of people he would go to dinner with between sessions.
Many said Jensen had been on the short list of potential Council members, but few seemed to know much about her, leading to open speculation that her ascension was somehow improper.
Transurban is on a short list of those bidding for billions of dollars in state contracts to build toll lanes on the Beltway and Interstate 270 in Maryland.
“If you’re not on that short list, you really need get creative,” he said.
To be a Third World country was to be on a short list of nations who were being asked to take a side amid the geopolitical chaos of the 1950’s Cold War.
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
“Gronkowski” itself never manages to sound more erotic than the name of a hearty Polish stew or a D-list WWE performer.
With all due respect to his athletic skill, Gronkowski is not high on the list of NFL players that elicit carnal thoughts.
In fact, he's not even high on the list of NFL players one jerks off too during halftime at Gillette Stadium.
There is a larger reason, beyond the airlines themselves, why Lion Air and 61 other Indonesian airlines are on this black list.
Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.
Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.
He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
He gives a list of the sponsors of the baptized Indians, who included many of the French nobility and clergy.
They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.