你既然选择了去做那种特别的，与众不同的事情，那么就只有那么短一段时间你能做它们，即便是什么也没发生过，早晚你也还是得在你现在待的地方。

You chose to do something so special, unique, that there was only a short window of time you could do it. So even if nothing ever happened, you'd still be right here where you're now.

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假如你或长或短地跟人交往了一段时间，想要去改变对方，那么，结果只能证明一件事：你改变不了别人。

If you have been in a relationship for any length of time and you want to change the other person, well, get really clear on one thing; you can't change other people.

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3分钟时如此短的一段时间。

Three minutes is such 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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