His work speaks to the short, hard life he lived.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

But there seems to be as much, if not maybe a bit more work in terms of part-time and short-term jobs.

但是就兼职和短期工而言，工作似乎没变少，可能还更多了。

英国的影视产业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He's seen me work on long assignments, short assignments, very analytic assignments, very not so analytic assignments.

他见过我处理一些长期任务，短期任务，一些需要大量分析的任务，还有一些不怎么需要分析的任务。

写推荐书的人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"In short, our intelligence community needs to work as one integrated team that produces quality,timely and accurate intelligence.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

to bring people on in short-term contract work.

关于雇佣短期合同工。

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