Now please be brief – my time is valuable.

现在请长话短说–我的时间很宝贵。

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It's not easy to be brief, especially on a topic you know a lot about.

想要在一个你非常了解的话题上保持简短并不容易。

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Letters terminating an agreement need to be brief and clear.

终止协议的信件必须简短明了。

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In a brief statement from the White House, Mr.Obama stressed this will be a complex and challenging operation.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

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

Please do bring them, and I will also be passing around Tony the Tow Truck and I'll give you a brief description of what the little children's book actually looks like, and then we will plunge in to the question "What is an author?"

请大家把它们带来，下节课，我会发给大家《托尼的拖车》,然后简要介绍一下,这本儿童读物，然后我们会直接讨论,作者是什么，这个问题“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Analysts said the trial could be brief, and sentences might be handed down Thursday.

CNN: N. Korea bars observers at reporters' trial

Mr Plimpton's oeuvre includes a number of movies, but his parts tended to be brief.

ECONOMIST: George Plimpton

The judgments against Mr. Riches tend to be brief, so there's not much ink or bandwidth spent on them.

NPR: Vick Joins Ranks of Those Sued by Prison Inmate