他的快乐只持续很短的一段时间，因为就在那时他听到有人说：“唧——唧——唧！”

His happiness lasted only a short time, for just then he heard someone saying: "Cri-cri-cri!"

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但这个阶段只持续很短的一段时间。

But this stage lasts only a short time.

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一些人需要服用抗抑郁药物很短的一段时间。

Some people need to take antidepressants for a short time.

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So, he actually owned for a short time this huge chateau, and other relatives and friends lived in estates surrounding theirs.

他只拥有这个巨大的城堡一段很短的时间，其他的亲戚朋友的房子都挨的很近。

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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。

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We won't come back to it at least for the moment, but you see that it's mercifully short, and as time passes we will do some rather interesting tricks with it.

至少我们这节课用不上，看，这篇故事很短，过一段时间我们会针对它做一些很有趣的练习。

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