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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I found this aspect of dance particularly fascinating during a brief time I spent in a rural village in Zimbabwe a few years ago.

几年前，我在津巴布韦的一个乡村度过了一段短暂的时光，在这段时光里我发现了舞蹈的迷人之处。

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In 1988, Hawking completed his book A Brief History of Time.

1988年，霍金完成了他的《时间简史》。

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His father was a democrat in czarist Russia, and he was quite a reformer. At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919, there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.

他的父亲在沙皇俄国是一个民主党人，他是一个改革家，当时布尔什维克党在1919年统治者俄国,他们家在那之后很快就离开俄国。

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Demonstrators occupied the Sri Lankan embassy in Oslo for a brief time on Sunday, Norwegian police said.

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In the late 16th century Dutchmen Cornelius and Frederik Houtman tried to swipe the key to Portugal's trade monopoly in the East Indies--detailed maps of that part of the globe--and landed in jail for a brief time.

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The Olympic Games provide China with a chance to show the world how much it has achieved in a remarkably brief period of time.

NPR: Beijing Preps For Opening Of Olympics