鉴于埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆称二十世纪(1914年至1991年)乃是个“短暂的世纪”，以及战争在本书起到的核心作用，这样的安排比较妥当。
Given the central role of war, a book limited to what Eric Hobsbawm has called the short 20th century-1914 to 1991-might have served better.
如下图所示，消费者的信心出于半个世纪以来的最低点(除了80年的一次短暂的严重衰退)。
Consumer confidence, as our chart shows, is at its lowest in more than half a century (except for a brief sharp dip in 1980).
另外，那两个职业只是在20世纪40年代晚期的时候他有过短暂接触。
The two careers, in addition, touched only briefly in the late 1940s.
日本在20世纪90年代中期经历过短暂的通货紧缩时期，而在过去十年物价较为稳定。
Japan had a brief period of deflation in the mid-1990s, followed by a more consistent pattern of flattish prices over the past decade.
在20世纪90年代后期网络泡沫时期的短暂盈利之后，航空业又开始了亏损。
After a brief period of profitability in the late 1990s during the dotcom boom, it again began to make losses.
在货币主义者渡过了他们二世纪八十年代早期的短暂繁荣后，人们已经放弃了通过控制货币来保持物价稳定的努力。
Since the brief monetarist heyday of the early 1980s attempts to achieve price stability by controlling money have been abandoned.
但经过20世纪90年代“泛蒙古主义”的短暂洗礼，蒙古人对在中国汉族统治枷锁下民族兄弟显而易见的困境所展现的民族热情在很大程度上似乎淹息了。
But after a brief flurry of "pan-Mongolism" in the 1990s, nationalist passion in Mongolia about the perceived plight of their ethnic brethren under the Han-Chinese yoke seems largely doused.
尽管遭受了自上个世纪30年代起来最严重的衰退，但全世界似乎从2009年的社会动荡中幸免于难：这只可能说明是风暴前短暂的安宁。
IF the world appears to have escaped relatively unscathed by social unrest in 2009, despite suffering the worst recession since the 1930s, it might just prove the lull before the storm.
在这个人们寻求着简单的、直接而短暂的乐趣的世纪里，卒姆托总是偏爱学识、思考与秩序。
Zumthor always prefers knowledge, thought, order, in a century when man is looking for simple pleasures, immediate and ephemeral.
数个世纪缩短成一个易逝的短暂时刻，历史乱了脚步，在疏忽时被乘虚而入，如旧蛇皮般脱落。
Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment. History was wrong footed, caught off guard. Sloughed off like an old snakeskin.
已故的神经学家本杰明利贝特在上世纪80年代发现一个现象，受试者在下意识选择弯曲一个手指之前300毫秒大脑就会有短暂的活动。
It was in the 1980s that the late neuroscientist Benjamin Libet saw a spark of brain activity 300 milliseconds before subjects consciously chose to twitch a finger.
法国在20世纪20年代曾有过短暂的工业复兴。
In 1920s, France went through industrial revival of short duration.
一个世纪是相当长的一段时间，但是在四千多年的中国历史里，却只是短暂的一个片段，几乎不到四十分之一。
A century is a long time, but of China's more than four thousand years of history it is but a small fraction, less than one fortieth.
一个世纪是相当长的一段时间，但是在四千多年的中国历史里，却只是短暂的一个片段，几乎不到四十分之一。
A century is a long time, but of China's more than four thousand years of history it is but a small fraction, less than one fortieth.
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