My life had been a journey from crisis to crisis with only a brief time in between.

我的生活总是从一个危机到另一个危机，其间间隔的时间都很短。

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For a brief moment during that stage of its life cycle, the tongue consists of two tiny half-tubes before merging into one.

在它生命周期的这一阶段，有短暂的一刻，其舌头由两个微小的半管组成，随后融合为一体。

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I'd like you to write a brief report on your life so far, an evaluation of what you did well, of what you did not so well and what you learned along the way.

写下一份简要的生命报告，自我评估一下到目前为止，您做过哪些很棒的事情，又有哪些事差强人意，一路走来的收获是什么。

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She turned to writing music. She says like many of her albums, "The Age of Miracles" gives a brief look at where she is in her life.

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But, according to Jimmy Young, BBC bosses expected the revolutionary format to have only a brief life.

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Believing in reincarnation would have given my daughter's brief life a deeper meaning.

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Half-dead already, his cancer comes as a sort of salvation, a chance at a new life even if it is a brief one.

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