A survey published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences found facial scars (such as Rhys Ifans' here) increase women's rating of men's attractiveness in the short-term.

发表在《性格与个体差异》杂志上的一项调查发现脸上的伤疤(就像上图中的瑞斯·伊凡斯一样)会增加短期内他们在女性眼中的吸引力。

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S&P downgraded Italy's long-term and short-term sovereign debt rating one-notch to A/A-1.

标普19日宣布，将意大利的长期和短期国债信用评级分别下调一个等级至A/A-1。

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Subjects were scaled by autism behavior checklist, childhood autism rating scale and adaptive behavior scale before and after the short-term training to compare the curative effects of two groups.

均于短期培训前后分别接受孤独症行为评定量表、儿童孤独症评定量表和儿童适应行为量表评定，比较两组疗效。

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It also cut the short-term rating on Argentine debt to C, one step above default.

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But its key short-term rating seems safe for now, an indication that the firm is in no imminent danger of the kind of credit run that brought down Bear Stearns.

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The company supplies components for Apple Computer's iMac, a hot seller in the U.S. But Bernard Tan of Merrill Lynch has downgraded NatSteel's short-term rating to neutral, although he still has a long-term buy on it.

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