From father to fatherland is but a short step.

从父亲到祖国只有一步之遥。

But both age groups took wider and shorter steps while wearing diapers as opposed to walking naked.

然而与不戴尿布截然相反的是，这两个年龄段的婴儿在戴上尿布时步子会迈得更宽更短一些。

She walked with short, quick steps.

【quick，quickness】她迈着碎步急速走着。

There were twenty-six steps, but he made one short step and reached the chair with the twenty-seventh.

有二十六步，但他走了一小步，第二十七步就到了椅子上。

Rage overcame Shaddam IV. He took two short steps through the entourage, cuffed Fenring viciously across the jaw.

愤怒战胜了沙达姆四世。 他从随行人员中间走了两步， 狠狠地铐在 Fenring 的下巴上。

So if you think there's only one future, it's a short step to thinking there are no futures.

所以，如果你认为只有一个未来，那就是认为没有未来的一小步。

Now hold your shoulder straight, and take short steps, and don't shake hands if you are introduced to anyone.

现在挺直你的肩膀，迈小步，如果你被介绍给任何人，不要握手。

From there it was a short step to his current job as chief executive of Nasa Garment, the first Ethiopian-owned company there.

从那时起他就离美国国家航空航天局服装公司首席执行官的职位仅剩一步之遥，这是该公司首家被埃塞俄比亚人所持有的公司。

" I'd say that it's one short step from 'Wizards first' to 'Purebloods first, ' and then to 'Death Eaters', " replied Kingsley.

“我只能说从‘巫师第一’到‘血统第一’只有一步之遥，而之后就是‘食死徒’”金斯莱回答说。

I no longer walked with a girl's short steps but could move across the mountains with a stride to match the Wall!

我不再是女孩子的小步子， 而是能跨过山， 步子与长城齐平了！

" I'd say that it's one short step from 'Wizards first' to 'Purebloods first, ' and then to 'Death Eaters, '" replied Kingsley. " We're all human, aren't we? "

我只能说从'巫师第一'到'血统第一'只有一步之遥，而之后就是'食死徒'" 金斯莱回答说，" 我们都是人类，不是吗？

As natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight, successive, favourable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modifications; it can act only by short and slow steps.

由于自然选择只是通过积累微小的、连续的、有利的变异来起作用， 所以它不会产生大的或突然的变异； 它只能通过短而缓慢的步骤来行动。

Sprightly, sober—a voice from a world that it seemed in the past two days they had left forever, Bounds sprang in short steps down the hall and appeared in the half darkness of the door.

活泼、清醒——来自过去两天他们似乎永远离开的世界的声音，Bounds 以几步之遥冲下大厅，出现在门的半暗中。

She turned north, treading the new little shadows on the pavement briskly, and, having finished buttoning her gloves, swung down her Malacca stick from under her arm to let it tap a more leisurely accompaniment to her quick, short step.

她转身向北，轻快地踩着人行道上新出现的小影子，扣好手套的扣子后，从腋下挥下她的马六甲手杖，让它更从容地敲击她那又快又短的步伐。