a short time

基本解释

Life is over in a short time. And not all of us will even be blessed with living until old age. If this was the last week of your life, are you living how you truly want to be or working toward that?
人生历经很短的时间，而且不是我们所有人都能幸运地活到老年，试想想如果这是你一生中的最后一个星期，你是不是正过着你真正想要的生活或正朝向它努力呢？
He paints with water, so each line of script lasts only a short time before dissolving away.
他用水书写，所以每一行的书写在它蒸发之前只能呈现很短的时间。
He would take on anyone,because he knew within a short time that he could beat them all.
他敢跟任何一个人较量，他深知自己能在短时间内将所有对手击败。

There they leave their eggs on milkweed plants, with the next generation of monarchs appearing a short time later.
So, he actually owned for a short time this huge chateau, and other relatives and friends lived in estates surrounding theirs.
他只拥有这个巨大的城堡一段很短的时间，其他的亲戚朋友的房子都挨的很近。
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And I think it was made pretty famous by the movie quite a lot, a short time ago with Hugh Grant.
我觉得很大程度上是电影让它出名了，前段时间的休•格兰特演的电影。
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DeCoux, now 27, marvels at what he has accomplished in such a short time.
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