in the short term中等

As to the prospects for federal legislation, commentators suggest that comprehensive federal privacy legislation seems unlikely in the short term.

至于联邦立法的前景，评论人士认为，短期内似乎不太可能出台全面的联邦隐私立法。

“As the marketplace adapts to the new requirements, and the technologies that support them, the scaling up of these technologies will eventually bring costs down, but in the short term, we will all have to pay the price of the necessary transition,” he says.

“随着市场适应新的要求以及支持这些要求的技术，这些技术的规模化最终会降低成本，但在短期内，我们都必须为这一必要的转型付出代价，”他说。

While these measures would be welcome in the short term, we must face up to the fact that the existing £4.5bn programme of grants to fund new affordable housing, set to expire in 2015, is unlikely to be extended beyond then.

虽然这些措施在短期内会受到欢迎，但我们必须正视这样一个事实：现有的45亿英镑新建经济适用房资助计划将于2015年到期，之后不太可能延期。