She claims she had a brief fling with him 30 years ago.

她声称30年前曾跟他有过一段短暂的风流韵事。

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The baseball pitcher had a brief affair with her.

那个棒球投手和她有段短暂恋情。

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He had a brief honeymoon.

他拥有一个短暂的蜜月期。

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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。

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So the point I'm suggesting is that many of Socrates' students and associates including Plato himself had some connection with this oligarchical government that had ruled Athens for a brief time.

所以，我想讲的是,许多苏格拉底的学生或是同僚,包括柏拉图本身，都与这个,曾短暂统治雅典的,寡头政府有关连。

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At their request, Eva Cameron had a brief meeting with Caryville police on Tuesday.

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Wealthy taxpayers had a brief opportunity to take advantage of this 0% tax break.

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We had a brief opportunity to examine the German passport, issued in the name of Said Bahaji.

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