briefest

英 [ˈbriːfɪst] 美 [ˈbrifəst]

adj.  短时间的; 短暂的; 简洁的; 简单的; 过短的; 暴露身体的
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  1. ADJ-GRADED 简短的；短暂的
    Something that is brief lasts for only a short time.
    1. She once made a brief appearance on television...
      她曾经在电视上短暂露面。
    2. This time their visit is brief.
      他们这次的访问时间很短。
  2. ADJ-GRADED （讲话或文章）简短的，简洁的
    A brief speech or piece of writing does not contain too many words or details.
    1. In a brief statement, he concentrated entirely on international affairs...
      他作了一个简短的声明，集中阐述了在国际事务方面的立场。
    2. Write a very brief description of a typical problem.
      就一个典型问题作简要的描述。
  3. ADJ-GRADED 简明扼要的
    If you are brief, you say what you want to say in as few words as possible.
    1. Now please be brief — my time is valuable...
      请长话短说——我的时间宝贵。
    2. I hope to be brief and to the point.
      我希望简明扼要，抓住重点。
  4. ADJ-GRADED （时间）短的，短暂的
    You can describe a period of time as brief if you want to emphasize that it is very short.
    1. 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. N-PLURAL 短内裤
    Men's or women's underpants can be referred to as briefs .
    1. A bra and a pair of briefs lay on the floor.
      地板上有一个胸罩和一条短内裤。
  6. VERB （尤指就某项工作或某一重大事件）向…简要介绍情况
    If someone briefs you, especially about a piece of work or a serious matter, they give you information that you need before you do it or consider it.
    1. A Defense Department spokesman briefed reporters...
      一位国防部发言人向记者们简要介绍了情况。
    2. The Prime Minister has been briefed by her parliamentary aides.
      首相已听取了她议会助手的简要汇报。
  7. N-COUNT 正式委托；指示
    If someone gives you a brief, they officially give you responsibility for dealing with a particular thing.
    1. ...customs officials with a brief to stop foreign porn coming into Britain.
      受命阻止国外淫秽出版物流入英国的海关官员
  8. See also: briefer briefing
  9. PHRASE 简短地
    If you refer to something in brief, you are referring to a shortened version of it with few details.
    1. ...and now sport in brief.
      现在播报体育简讯
  10. PHRASE 简言之；总之
    You can say in brief to indicate that you are about to say something in as few words as possible or to give a summary of what you have just said.
    1. In brief, take no risks.
      总之，不能冒险。
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双语例句

  1. Jane Austen makes only the briefest appearance, and Edgar Allen Poe shows his face only at Halloween.
    简。奥斯丁的简装本，偶尔出现，埃德加。艾伦的作品只是在万圣节才被摆上桌面。
  2. After the briefest of exiles, Sherlock came back only to face one of his biggest mysteries yet. Why is Moriartys face being broadcast on every television in the land?
    在短暂的流放生涯之后，夏洛克回到伦敦，却又要面对一个极大的谜团莫里亚蒂的面孔出现在英国每部电视机的荧幕上，这是怎么回事？
  3. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart.
    即便是最短暂的善良也能点亮一颗失落的心。
  4. The man who came to Dallas in 1976 with$ 200 in his pocket and made it to president of Pizza Hut was taking the briefest break from his usual activity: plugging Dallas.
    这位1976年揣着200美元来到达拉斯、后来当过必胜客（PizzaHut）总裁的达拉斯市长正在小憩，暂时把他的日常活动宣传达拉斯放在了一边。
  5. And for the briefest of moments every last man at Shwashank felt free.
    就在那一刹那，每一位在肖申克监狱的人感到了自由。
  6. Nor had Davey birdsong's antics the insults and provocation been given more than the briefest mention, and even then not critically.
    戴维伯德桑的丑态表演-辱骂和挑衅-也只是略略提了一下，而且也没有受到非难。
  7. To boil it down to the briefest summary, American characteristics are the product of response to an unusually competitive situation combined with unusual opportunity.
    归根结底，最简洁地说，美国人的性格，就是对具有非常机遇的非常竞争环境作出反应的结果。
  8. At the briefest glimpse of my picture, various of them fled in fright, saying: Oh God, are you Lucy Kellaway?
    在匆匆瞥一眼我的照片后，他们许多人吓得逃之夭夭，说到：哦，上帝，你是露西•凯拉韦吗？
  9. Some of the world's greatest leaders are known for their briefest communications.
    一些世界上著名的领导人都是广为人知的简洁交流的高手。
  10. A foreign language cannot be learned rapidly, it must be learned step by step. Their conversation was in briefest phrase for sometime.
    外语并非在短时间内就能学会，学外语是一个循序渐进的过程。有一段时间，他们之间的谈话只是用一些最简短的语句进行的。
  11. A headline is the briefest summary of the article in the English newspaper.
    英语报刊标题是英语报刊的文章内容最高度的概括和浓缩。
  12. At the briefest glance at a table of elementary particles, we can see straight away that the neutron and proton are very similar.
    查阅基本粒子表，立刻就可看出，中子和质子非常相似。
  13. As they talk, they exchange only the briefest of glances.
    他们谈话时，只极为短暂地相互看几眼。
  14. Their conversation was in briefest phrase for sometime.
    有一段时间，他们之间的谈话只是用一些最简短的语句进行的。
  15. He had, for the absolute briefest time, let wishful thinking about results overrule his scientific caution.
    有那么一瞬间，他对实验结果的一厢情景压倒了科学的谨慎。
  16. She visits them only to feed them, and then only for the briefest possible time, between five and ten minutes.
    树妈妈只有在需要喂食的时候才去看看树宝宝们，而且待的时间尽可能短，也就五到十分钟。
  17. They do well in absorbing and summing up the freshest words, expressions and patterns used in Chinese language and convey them to each student in the briefest way.
    他们善于吸收总结最鲜活的汉语词汇和用法，并采用最简洁易懂的方法教授个每一位学生。
  18. I have endeavoured to give in their briefest outline the reasons for my disaffection.
    我已经尽力简短地说明了我产生不满情绪的原因。
  19. Then suddenly she leaned forward and, without saying a word, gave him a briefest peck on the cheek, and darted out of the room, leaving him puzzled and enthralled.
    突然，女孩把身子靠近，没说一句话，却在他的脸颊上轻吻一下，然后飞奔出屋，房间里只留下呆掉傻掉的他。
  20. Seizures can vary from the briefest lapses of attention or muscle jerks, to severe and prolonged convulsions ( i.e.violent and involuntary contractions, or a series of contractions, of the muscles).
    癫痫的发作可能存有不同情况，从简短的意识丧失或肌肉反射到严重并且长期性抽搐（即肌肉的强烈和不自主性收缩或者一系列收缩）不等。
  21. And in that briefest of moments in which I took my eyes off her, she was gone.
    后来我站起来。就在我眨眼的一瞬间，她不见了。
  22. Sketch is the art language of painting, which is simplest, the briefest and the most vivid in the plastic arts.
    速写是造型艺术中最单纯、最概括、最传神的绘画艺术语言。
  23. As far as the Russian culture chrematistics are concerned, idioms are the most available and vivid and briefest language materials for study.
    对于研究俄罗斯民族的文化特点来说，成语是最现成的、最形象的、最言简意赅的语言材料。
  24. Arts lines are the tersest and briefest manifestation with which people use to understand and express the natural patterns.
    线条是人们认识和反映自然形态最简洁最概括的表现形式。
  25. Based on the internal blocking characters of Banyan network, the condition of constructing rearrangeable non-blocking extended Banyan network is analyzed, and the briefest construction of rearrangeable non-blocking extended Banyan network is proposed.
    本文在分析Banyan网络内部阻塞特性基础上，分析了构建可重构无阻塞扩展Banyan网络的条件，以及可重构无阻塞扩展Banyan网络的最简形式。
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