It takes more than a brief encounter on a bus to distinguish between courteous convention and individual interest.

要区分礼貌习俗和个人兴趣，仅仅在公共汽车上的一次短暂邂逅是不够的。

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A brief encounter, I can never forget.

短暂的相遇，却念念不忘。

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It was a brief encounter, filled with mystery.

这是一个简单的遭遇，充满神秘感。

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The relationship was a brief encounter with one of my teammates.

NPR: 'Out of Bounds': Gay, Closeted and In the NFL

He'd been tricked into marriage after a brief encounter with the beautiful and soulless socialite Sylvia (Rebecca Hall), the ceaselessly disparaging virago of a wife who will haunt his life.

WSJ: Television Review: The Battlegrounds of Love and War

The goal of the advert was to restore the passion and romance to the railway, to scrub out memories of Hatfield, delays and commuting and replace them with a taste of Brief Encounter.

BBC: Ad Breakdown's review of 2005