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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I've made a lot of really good friends in a really short time span.

在很短的一段时间里，我就交了很多好朋友。

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We won't come back to it at least for the moment, but you see that it's mercifully short, and as time passes we will do some rather interesting tricks with it.

至少我们这节课用不上，看，这篇故事很短，过一段时间我们会针对它做一些很有趣的练习。

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And the company grew 80%per year for the first eight years compounded, and 60 % per year for the six years after that, which adds up to tens of billions real quick, as you know.

公司保持百分之八十的年增长,持续了八年，这之后的六年，每年增长百分之六十，正如你们所知，在很短的,一段时间内赚了数百亿。

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