He spoke in Arabic, a short staccato burst.

他突然用阿拉伯语叽里呱啦说了一串话。

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There are seasons in your spiritual life, too. Sometimes you will have a short, intense burst of growth (springtime) followed by a period of stabilizing and testing (fall and winter).

在你的精神生活中也有不同的季节。有时，在经历了一个平稳的尝试的阶段（秋季和冬季）后，你会拥有一个短暂的、激烈猛涨的时期（春季）。

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"I used to stare at them in restaurants, open-mouthed until my little brother said 'er, Andrea, don't do that,'" she says, emitting a short burst of self-mocking laughter.

“我经常在饭店里张着嘴，呆呆的看着他们，直到我哥哥说‘别这样，安德丽亚！’”她一边说，一边自嘲的笑了起来。

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In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake.

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Supercapacitors have a big internal surface-area that allows a large amount of energy to be delivered rapidly and are used in some electric cars to provide a short burst of power for rapid acceleration and in hybrids to recover energy during braking.

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The Internet burst in 2002, they proclaimed, two short years before Facebook.

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