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brief

英 [briːf] 美[brif]

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adj. 简短的，简洁的；短暂的，草率的
n. 摘要，简报；概要，诉书
vt. 简报，摘要；作…的提要
n. (Brief)人名；(英)布里夫

考试真题

She'd wake up early, turn on her laptop and chat on Internet dating sites and instant-messaging programs – leaving her bed for only brief intervals.

Make a brief self-introduction on the phone.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

Professor Henderson, could you give us a brief overview of what you do, where you work and your main area of research? I have many Business English students.

In one of the study's experiments, subjects were given a brief description of a man from Chicago with the last name Williams.

The client company generallygives the advertising agency an agreed budget, a statement of theobjective of the advertising campaign known as a brief and an overall advertising strategy concerning the message to be communicated to the target customers.

By the 1950s, most schools required a brief personal statement of why the student had chosen to apply to one school over another.

But there is also time for brief diversions onto bizarre ground, such as a discussion of the skyscraper index (which holds that a boom in skyscraper construction is a foolproof sign of an imminent recessio.

When those were finished, she concluded the session with a brief restatement of how the new system would improve security and peace of mind in the municipal building.

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable " suborbital " flights — brief ventures just to the edge of space's vast darkness.

For a brief moment during that stage of its life cycle, the tongue consists of two tiny half-tubes before merging into one.

I'll start with a brief review of the reasons for the change that we really need to make a clean break to restart growth.

Professor Henderson, could you give us a brief overview of what you do, where you work and your main area of research?

Fortunately, after a brief stay in hospital, Ben was well enough to be allowed to leave and later the family met up for dinner.

The professor doesn't remember the comments he or she wrote on your individual piece of work, though he or she will be able to recall them after just a brief glance at your work.

This brief visit with mother nature cost me two days off from work, recovering from a bad case of sunburn and the doctor's bill for my son's food poisoning.

We shared the brief that if you're fortunate enough to have success, you should put something back - he with his newman's own food and his hole in the wall camps for kids who are seriously ill, and me with sundance and the institute and the festival.

Write another email as swiftly as you can and send it with a brief explaining that this is the correct version and the previous version should be ignored.

It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.

The development of the Elizabethan drama for the next twenty-five years is of exceptional interest to students of literary history, for in this brief period we may trace the beginning, growth, blossoming, and decay of many kinds of plays, and of many great careers.

In October the Department of Justice filed a brief in the Myriad case, arguing that an isolated DNA molecule "is no less a product of nature... than are cotton fibres that have been separated from cotton seeds."

Neuroscientist Bonnie Augeung found that the hormone oxytocin increased the amount of eye contact from men toward the interviewer during a brief interview when the direction of their gaze was recorded.

双语例句

1. A guide gives a brief talk on the history of the site.: 导游简要地介绍了那个遗址的历史。

2. Now please be brief — my time is valuable.: 请长话短说——我的时间宝贵。

3. This is a brief stop to take on passengers and water.: 这是一次短暂停靠，上上客，加加水。

4. For a few brief minutes we forgot the anxiety and anguish.: 短短几分钟我们就忘记了焦虑与苦恼。

5. She claims she had a brief fling with him 30 years ago.: 她声称在30年前曾和他有过一段短暂的风流韵事。