In 1988, Hawking completed his book A Brief History of Time.

1988年，霍金完成了他的《时间简史》。

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I found this aspect of dance particularly fascinating during a brief time I spent in a rural village in Zimbabwe a few years ago.

几年前，我在津巴布韦的一个乡村度过了一段短暂的时光，在这段时光里我发现了舞蹈的迷人之处。

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He wrote several popular science books, including the bestseller A Brief History of Time which made him a household name.

他写了几本科普书籍，其中畅销书《时间简史》使他家喻户晓。

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His father was a democrat in czarist Russia, and he was quite a reformer. At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919, there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.

他的父亲在沙皇俄国是一个民主党人，他是一个改革家，当时布尔什维克党在1919年统治者俄国,他们家在那之后很快就离开俄国。

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In 1998, Hawking published "A Brief History of Time, " a layman's guide to the origins of the universe.

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It may be that just getting the money, at whatever rate for a brief period of time, is priceless--only they can decide.

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Citizens United, at its core, concerned a law that set aside a brief period of time (shortly before elections) when corporations could not fund political commercials.

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