The electric company, whose monopoly may be short lived, has suddenly mopped requiring users to wait half a day for a repairman.

这家电力公司的垄断地位可能是短暂的，但突然之间，它要用户等半天才能找到修理工。

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Her sense of triumph was short-lived.

她喜悦的感觉是短暂的。

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With luck, this will be short-lived.

幸运的话，这种情况将是短暂的。

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Although Patrick Michael from the Cato Institute says religious leaders and movies have only a short lived influence, World Watch disagrees.

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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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She lived in New York for a short time, but she was afflicted with lupus, a very serious illness, and she died at the age of 39 in 1964.

她在纽约度过一段短暂的时光，但她饱受狼疮，一种严重疾病的折磨，最终逝世于1964年。

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It erased some doubts about whether a bump from new Express Scripts would be short lived.

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However, that looks likely to be short lived unless Microsoft starts to care more about its reputation too.

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In my analysis, the fall in the stock on the dividend cut is likely to be short lived.

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