in the long / short / medium term
長/短/中期內
used to describe what will happen a long, short, etc. time in the future
Such a development seems unlikely, at least in the short term (= it will not happen for quite a long time).發生這樣的情況看來可能性不大,起碼短期之內應當如此。
釋義來自《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》第 9 版