Where once retirement was seen as a brief reward after a long struggle through some miserable job, it is now akin to being cast aside.

在过去，退休被视为一份苦差事之后的短暂回报，而现在，退休就像是被抛弃了。

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It was the first of a series of voyages that would, for a brief period, establish China as the leading power of the age.

这次远航揭开了其后一连串海上航行的序幕，并在短暂时间内为中国确立了大国领先的地位。

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Shattered by the end of a brief marriage, jobless, and a single mother, Rowling said she was "as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless."

被短暂的婚姻结束所撕裂，没有工作，还是单身母亲，罗琳说她“就像当代英国所接受的穷人一样，除了没有无家可归。”

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For a brief moment, it was as if someone stuck a pin in a balloon and deflated my lovely day.

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So, a weakening in the linkage between the dollar and the stock market, brief as it might turn out to be, was welcomed yesterday.

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But it was only a brief respite as Saints still found time to run in five more tries.

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