in the long / short / medium term
长/短/中期内
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).发生这样的情况看来可能性不大,起码短期之内应当如此。
释义来自《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》第 9 版