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基本解释

Since we have friends in Phoenix, we pop in there for a brief visit.
由于我们在菲尼克斯有些朋友，所以我们突然到那里进行了短暂的拜访。
We decided to round off our tour of Europe with a brief visit to Madrid.
我们决定去马德里作一次短暂的访问，以此结束我们的欧洲之行。
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Cindy: Take some pictures of the thing you want to sell, then upload it onto line with a brief description about it and leave your connecting number. Then your stuff will be sold by auction.
辛迪: 先给你要卖的东西拍几张照片，把照片上传到网上，再附上物品的简要说明和你的联系方式，这样你的东西就会按照拍卖的方式在这里出售了。

The president,in a brief statement at the White House Friday afternoon, restated his goal of health care reform this year.
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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It lasted just a few months and people once we got out of it people thought maybe we're getting a brief--a respite.
它只持续了几个月，人们,曾经我们摆脱了这个时期后人们认为,也许我们得到了一个暂时的缓解和放松。
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Indeed, Saddam's sentencing was only a brief interruption in the president's final campaign swing.
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