He is brief of speech.

他说话简短。

《新英汉大辞典》

I was given the brief of reorganizing the department.

我被分派去改组这个部门。

《牛津词典》

Many older Russian historians appear to agree that the panel, and its brief of fighting revisionism, is a good thing.

许多老迈的俄国历史学者力挺这个小组，并认为他们与修正主义的斗争是一件好事。

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The president,in a brief statement at the White House Friday afternoon, restated his goal of health care reform this year.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

It gets popped off the stack as one says and so you know what the values actually as we've hinted at with our brief discussions of forensics they're actually still there.

它从堆中释放了,那些值是什么，就像我们讨论的辩论练习,所暗示的,我们还在那里。

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Just contrast this for a brief moment to something like Selection Sort which from the get go had a ridiculous amount of redundancy comparing the same damn numbers again and again, and again.

这就与其他的排序算法形成了鲜明的对比,比如选择排序,它会一次又一次地做,多余的比较。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Outside the negotiations, two entirely different groups had also assembled, with a self-appointed brief of keeping the negotiators on track.

BBC: Stockholm: Birth of the green generation

The movement was born in 1986 in the northern Italian town of Bra, with the brief of combating the frenetic pace of modern life, which means we often eat badly and in a rush.

BBC: Italy celebrates 'slow food'

Prior to the operation Allardyce had "complained of brief episodes of chest discomfort", according to the club.

BBC: Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce to miss tie with Chelsea