A seizure is a sudden attack that may affect a person's mind or body for a short period.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

Although, maybe it will be in a short period of time as we continue to grow.

可能随着公司发展,会有所变化。

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So, it's not the sort of thing that affects her just for a short period.

所以，这对她来说,并不只是一种短期的影响。

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However,many listeners did care. Within a short period, Benny had his own radio show.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

We did that, we came up with very good Chinese search engine technology, and we signed up a lot of the Chinese portals in a very short period of time.

我们开发了,很好的中文搜索引擎技术，并在短期内，和许多门户网站公司,签了合约。

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The results suggested that people do act differently if they think they are working with a group for a short period of time instead of a long period.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

.. The equity premium is the-- 2.8% this short-term 2.8% is the riskless return, historically, for a period of almost 200 years.

股权溢价就是-,这个短期无风险投资收益率是，是根据近200年的数据得出的。

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"Any substantial eruption of a volcano has a potential to do that over a short period of time.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Hawthorne wrote a short story you should read sometime, as a balance to all of this optimism of this period, irresistible as that optimism was.

霍桑写了篇短文,有机会你应当读读看,他给那个狂热乐观主义时代打了一针清醒剂,因为那是种不容抗拒的乐观

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His research shows that those taking the medications for more than four years have a higher risk of a fracture than people taking the drugs for a short period of time.

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

Okay, well the interesting thing is, you guys in a very short period of time generated a number of ideas about what this could be.

好,有意思的是,大家在很短时间内,猜出了很多种东西

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"I think Dubai went a little bit too fast and they borrowed too much money in a very short period of time."

VOA: special.2009.12.04

So the first half of the book of Joshua contains a streamlined, idealized account according to which the Israelites managed in a relatively short period to take the central hill country, confining the Philistines to a little strip here on the coastal plain. We will come to the Philistines in a minute.

因此《约书亚书》第一部分包含了,一种流线行，理想化的叙述，据此,以色列人在相对较短的时期内设法,攫取中央山地，将腓利士人，逼至狭窄条形地带,逼至海岸平原，我们待会儿将要说到腓利士人。

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The term is on the board and it's a good example of syncopation sort of jumping in ahead of time cutting off the beat, getting in there ahead of time and throwing off the metrical balance for a very short period of time.

这个词已经写在白板上,这是个非常典型的切分音的例子,它提前跳入,切分节奏,提前介入,并在非常短的时间里,打破拍子的平衡

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In fact, he was knocked unconscious only for a short period and then he got up and his friends surrounded him and asked, "Are you okay?"

事实上，他只是短暂失去知觉,然后他起来了,他的朋友围过来问道，你还好吗“

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Stocks have paid 4% more a year over this incredibly long time period than short-term bonds.

股票在相当长的一段时间里,每年都比短期债券投资收益率,高出4个百分点。

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