a brief

基本解釋

Since we have friends in Phoenix, we pop in there for a brief visit.
由於我們在菲尼尅斯有些朋友，所以我們突然到那裡進行了短暫的拜訪。
We decided to round off our tour of Europe with a brief visit to Madrid.
我們決定去馬德裡作一次短暫的訪問，以此結(jié)束我們的歐洲之行。
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Cindy: Take some pictures of the thing you want to sell, then upload it onto line with a brief description about it and leave your connecting number. Then your stuff will be sold by auction.
辛迪: 先給你要賣的東西拍幾張照片，把照片上傳到網(wǎng)上，再附上物品的簡要說明和你的聯(lián)系方式，這樣你的東西就會按照拍賣的方式在這裡出售了。

The president,in a brief statement at the White House Friday afternoon, restated his goal of health care reform this year.
Just contrast this for a brief moment to something like Selection Sort which from the get go had a ridiculous amount of redundancy comparing the same damn numbers again and again, and again.
這就與其他的排序算法形成了鮮明的對比,比如選擇排序,它會一次又一次地做,多餘的比較。
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It lasted just a few months and people once we got out of it people thought maybe we're getting a brief--a respite.
它衹持續(xù)了幾個月，人們,曾經(jīng)我們擺脫了這個時期後人們認爲,也許我們得到了一個暫時的緩解和放松。
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Indeed, Saddam's sentencing was only a brief interruption in the president's final campaign swing.
NPR: Bush, Democrats Weigh In on Saddam Sentence