There was a short period of uneasy calm after the riot.

动乱之后是令人不安的短暂平静。

《牛津词典》

I have never seen such a seismic shift in public opinion in such a short period of time.

我从来没有见过公众舆论在这么短的时间内发生如此突然的转变。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

In the case of Facebook, the company says data may hang around until the URL in question is reused, which is usually "after a short period of time", though obviously that time can vary considerably.

以 Facebook 为例，该公司表示，在该链接被重用之前，数据可能会一直存在，通常是“在很短的时间之后”，不过很明显，这段时间的长度可能很不确定。

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.. The equity premium is the-- 2.8% this short-term 2.8% is the riskless return, historically, for a period of almost 200 years.

股权溢价就是-,这个短期无风险投资收益率是，是根据近200年的数据得出的。

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If I short the one-period bond it cancels out, so I've made no net purchase in 1925.

卖空一单位一年期债券则刚好抵消,所以我在1925年的净买入为零

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Stocks have paid 4% more a year over this incredibly long time period than short-term bonds.

股票在相当长的一段时间里,每年都比短期债券投资收益率,高出4个百分点。

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But there are about 1000 so-called short-period comets, whose orbits take less than 200 years.

ECONOMIST: Unbuckling the Kuiper belt

Short-period comets, however, are mostly confined to the ecliptic the plane in which the planets themselves are found.

ECONOMIST: Unbuckling the Kuiper belt

Short-period comets have their short periods precisely because of their interactions with closer-by planets, which are already known to astronomers.

ECONOMIST: X marks the spot