They were looking down into a lowered place, where something white was lying, squirming a little, in a box lined with black cloth.

他们在往低处看,在一个围着黑布的箱子里，好像有什么白色的东西躺在里面，微微地蠕动，在很短的时间内。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I've made a lot of really good friends in a really short time span.

在很短的一段时间里，我就交了很多好朋友。

斯坦福的奖学金 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Okay, well the interesting thing is, you guys in a very short period of time generated a number of ideas about what this could be.

好,有意思的是,大家在很短时间内,猜出了很多种东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So, just, if you can take what I'm saying for a moment right now that in fact this should collapse in this very small time frame, we have to see that there's a problem with one of these two things, either the Coulomb force law or Newtonian mechanics. So, what do you guys think is probably the issue here?

所以如果你们考虑我,开始说的这个塌缩应该,发生在很短的时间里，那么这两者之一就有问题,要么是库伦定律,要么是牛顿力学,你们觉得应该是哪个的问题？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

There'll be a brief period in which, as a cadaver I suppose, my heart will continue to exist.

在我死亡后很短的时间内,我的心脏将会继续存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the company grew 80%per year for the first eight years compounded, and 60 % per year for the six years after that, which adds up to tens of billions real quick, as you know.

公司保持百分之八十的年增长,持续了八年，这之后的六年，每年增长百分之六十，正如你们所知，在很短的,一段时间内赚了数百亿。

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