六级For a brief moment during that stage of its life cycle, the tongue consists of two tiny half-tubes before merging into one.

在生命周期的这一阶段，舌头在合并成一根管子之前有一小会儿是由两个细小的半管组成的。

高考This brief visit with mother nature cost me two days off from work, recovering from a bad case of sunburn and the doctor's bill for my son's food poisoning.

这次短暂的自然之母之旅让我花了两天的时间休息，从一次严重的晒伤和我儿子食物中毒的医生账单中恢复过来。

六级But there is also time for brief diversions onto bizarre ground, such as a discussion of the skyscraper index (which holds that a boom in skyscraper construction is a foolproof sign of an imminent recessio.

但也有时间进行一些简单的转向，比如讨论摩天大楼指数（摩天大楼指数认为摩天大楼建设的繁荣是经济衰退即将来临的万无一失的迹象）。

四级Make a brief self-introduction on the phone.

在电话里做一个简短的自我介绍。

考研The development of the Elizabethan drama for the next twenty-five years is of exceptional interest to students of literary history, for in this brief period we may trace the beginning, growth, blossoming, and decay of many kinds of plays, and of many great careers.

伊丽莎白时代戏剧在未来二十五年的发展对文学史的学生来说非常有兴趣，因为在这段短暂的时间里，我们可以追溯许多种类的戏剧和许多伟大事业的开始、成长、繁荣和衰败。

高考Fortunately, after a brief stay in hospital, Ben was well enough to be allowed to leave and later the family met up for dinner.

幸运的是，本在医院住了一段时间后，身体状况良好，可以出院了，后来全家聚在一起吃晚饭。

考研It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.

这可能是因为我们正在形成两个社会科学家群体：一个是以学科为导向并在高度专业化的期刊上发表的群体，另一个是以问题为导向并在其他地方发表的群体，如政策简报。

六级By the 1950s, most schools required a brief personal statement of why the student had chosen to apply to one school over another.

到了20世纪50年代，大多数学校都要求学生提供一份简短的个人陈述，说明为什么他们选择申请一所学校而不是另一所学校。

考研In October the Department of Justice filed a brief in the Myriad case, arguing that an isolated DNA molecule "is no less a product of nature... than are cotton fibres that have been separated from cotton seeds."

10月，司法部在Myriad案件中提交了一份案情摘要，辩称一个孤立的DNA分子“同样是大自然的产物。。。而不是从棉籽中分离出来的棉纤维。”

四级She'd wake up early, turn on her laptop and chat on Internet dating sites and instant-messaging programs – leaving her bed for only brief intervals.

她会早早起床，打开笔记本电脑，在网上约会网站和即时通讯程序上聊天——离开床的时间很短。

六级But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable " suborbital " flights — brief ventures just to the edge of space's vast darkness.

但最近，公司开始计划更经济实惠的“亚轨道”飞行——在太空广阔黑暗的边缘进行短暂的冒险。

六级In one of the study's experiments, subjects were given a brief description of a man from Chicago with the last name Williams.

在该研究的一个实验中，受试者得到了一个来自芝加哥的姓威廉姆斯的男人的简要描述。

六级Professor Henderson, could you give us a brief overview of what you do, where you work and your main area of research?

亨德森教授，你能简要介绍一下你的工作、工作地点和主要研究领域吗？

六级Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

然而，大多数大型旅游者停留的时间较短，在老师或监护人的陪同下以较少的学术意图出发，并期望带着旅行纪念品以及通过接触名作而形成的对艺术和建筑的理解回家。

高考The professor doesn't remember the comments he or she wrote on your individual piece of work, though he or she will be able to recall them after just a brief glance at your work.

教授不记得他或她对你的个人作品所写的评论，尽管他或她只需简单地看一眼你的作品就能回忆起来。

高考Write another email as swiftly as you can and send it with a brief explaining that this is the correct version and the previous version should be ignored.

尽可能快地再写一封电子邮件，并在发送时简要说明这是正确的版本，应忽略以前的版本。

考研Neuroscientist Bonnie Augeung found that the hormone oxytocin increased the amount of eye contact from men toward the interviewer during a brief interview when the direction of their gaze was recorded.

神经科学家Bonnie Augeung发现，在一次简短的采访中，当记录下男性注视的方向时，催产素激素会增加男性对采访者的目光接触量。

六级Professor Henderson, could you give us a brief overview of what you do, where you work and your main area of research? I have many Business English students.

亨德森教授，你能简要介绍一下你的工作、工作地点和主要研究领域吗？我有很多商务英语的学生。

六级I'll start with a brief review of the reasons for the change that we really need to make a clean break to restart growth.

首先，我将简要回顾一下我们真正需要进行彻底改革以重新启动增长的原因。

六级When those were finished, she concluded the session with a brief restatement of how the new system would improve security and peace of mind in the municipal building.

会议结束后，她简短地重申了新系统将如何改善市政大楼的安全与安宁。

六级The client company generallygives the advertising agency an agreed budget, a statement of theobjective of the advertising campaign known as a brief and an overall advertising strategy concerning the message to be communicated to the target customers.

客户公司通常会向广告公司提供一份商定的预算、一份广告活动目标说明，即一份简要说明和一份关于要传达给目标客户的信息的总体广告战略。

高考We shared the brief that if you're fortunate enough to have success, you should put something back - he with his newman's own food and his hole in the wall camps for kids who are seriously ill, and me with sundance and the institute and the festival.

我们分享了一份简报，如果你有幸获得成功，你应该把一些东西放回去——他带着纽曼自己的食物和他为重病儿童而设的墙洞营地，我带着圣丹斯、研究所和节日。