The onslaught of worrisome news is creating an investor climate similar to a brief panic that erupted on May 6, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged by 1000 points before bouncing back later in the day, according to UBS Financial Services market analyst Art Cashin.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

When a brief pulse of electricity is sent to the read/write head it flips on a tiny electromagnet for a fraction of a second.

当一个简单的电脉冲被送到读写头,它会短时间内出现一个小的电磁。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Okay. That's the end. I want to remind you a final time to look at your Spenser, the cave of Mammon episode, as well as Dr. Johnson's brief comments on Sin and Death.

好，就讲到这，最后一次提醒你们,阅读斯宾塞，贪欲之神的洞窟的故事，还有约翰逊博士对《罪与死亡》的简评。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

After very brief exposures to people, people are very accurate at identifying them on "The Big Five."

经过短暂的接触，人们就能很准确地评价这些人的大五人格“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Section for On the Road will probably be next week unless your TF wants to bring up some brief questions about it, but that's all for today.

在路上这个作品的讨论课可能是在下周,除非你们的TF想让你们提出一些简单的问题，好吧今天就到这里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Starting at the beginning of the third week of class that is not next week but the week after on each Monday I'm going to put up a brief question or set of questions, which you have to answer and your answers need to be sent to your teaching fellow.

本课程将于开学后三周开课,也就是自下下周开始,每周一上课,我会提出一系列问题,要同学们思考并回答,大家的答案要在周五前交给研究生助教

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选