短暫的僅限於一個插麯持續的時間；短暫的 Limited to the duration of an episode; temporary.
可惜這些文化熱潮都是短暫的，過後又恢復常態。 Such large-scale activities have drawn many participants and created much awareness and enthusiasm, which alas, tend to be short-lived and cannot be sustained.
吟唱聖經引自《使徒書信》和《福音書》之間的用於吟唱的一段聖經短文 A biblical text sung between the Epistle and the Gospel of the Mass.
短禱告在特定日子裏所念的短的正式的祈禱文 A brief formal prayer that is used in various Western liturgies before the epistle and that varies with the day.
紀比世長比代短的時間單位 A unit of time, longer than an epoch and shorter than an era.
剛果非洲中西部一國傢，在大西洋海岸有很短的海岸綫。它在1960年獨立前是法屬赤道非洲的一部分。布拉柴維爾是其首都也是最大城市。人口1，912，429 A country of west-central Africa with a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. It was part of French Equatorial Africa before becoming independent in1960. Brazzaville is the capital and the largest city. Population,1, 912, 429.
與春分或秋分（晝夜長短一致）有關。 relating to an equinox (when the lengths or night and day are equal).
二分時刻一天中太陽通過天赤道的兩個時刻中的任一時刻，此時晝夜長短幾乎相等；春分或秋分 Either of the two times during a year when the sun crosses the celestial equator and when the length of day and night are approximately equal; the vernal equinox or the autumnal equinox.
含糊其詞的短語意義模糊的、短語、表達 An equivocal word, phrase, or expression.
白天變得越來越短。 The day becomes more and more short(ly)er.
在很短的時間內，就使賣淫這種在舊中國屢禁不絶、嚴重摧殘婦女身心和侮辱婦女人格的社會痼疾絶跡，社會面貌為之一新。 In a very short period of time, the sale of sex, a chronic social malady that seemed impossible to eradicate in old China and which seriously damaged the physical and mental health of women and degraded their dignity, disappeared, enabling society to take on a brand-new outlook.
灰額主紅雀一種大型，有冠的雀科鳴鳥（灰額主紅雀紅交嘴鳥屬）産於墨西哥以及美國西南部，長有灰色和紅色的羽毛以及短而粗的喙 A large, crested finch(Pyrrhuloxia sinuata) of Mexico and the southwest United States, having gray and red plumage and a short, thick bill.
咒文，咒語變戲法的人常用的無意義的詞或短語 Nonsense words or phrases used as a formula by quack conjurers.
一種四拍的舞廳舞蹈；由短和快和慢和快固定的順序組成。 a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences.
四周拋跳是否會出現在自由滑比賽中將取决於短節目比賽的結果和他們在自由滑抽簽中的最後結果。 Whether the quadruple Sal chow throw will show up in the free program will depend on what happens in the short program and what draw they get for the free program.
過眼煙雲虛幻的、不現實的或短暫存在的東西 Something that is airy, insubstantial, or passing.
鶉鵪屬舊大陸的一種小的短粗尾的鵪鶉（鵪鶉），具有沙色的有條紋的羽毛，通常用於實驗室的研究工作 A small, stub-tailed Eurasian quail(Coturnix coturnix) having sandy, streaked plumage and commonly used in laboratory research.
45.典型的鵪鶉都長有短而圓的翅膀，憑此他們可以在受驚時一躍而起，飛離它們的躲藏地。 45. Quails typically have short rounded wings that enable them to spring into full flight instantly when disturbed in their hiding places.
插入成份，插入詞在書寫中插入的與上下文的語法結構沒有關係的限定或補充的詞、短語或句子 A qualifying or amplifying word, phrase, or sentence inserted within written matter in such a way as to be independent of the surrounding grammatical structure.
音節長短在音量的詩歌中某音節的音長 The duration of a syllable in quantitative verse.
弱音節音步中短的或非重讀的部分，尤指在長短步詩中 The short or unaccented part of a metrical foot, especially in quantitative verse.
莫勒表示時間的節律係統中最小的音節單位，其時間值相當於一個普通短音節 The minimal unit of metrical time in quantitative verse, equal to the short syllable.
長音節的拆分或替換一個韻律元素替代另一個，尤指在數量韻文中用兩個短音節替代一個長音節 The substitution of one metrical unit for another, especially the substitution of two short syllables for one long syllable in quantitative verse.
短量險 Risk of shortage in weight/quantity
二者結盟預計將縮短昆騰公司開發的環保汽車技術大規模投放市場的時間。 The alliance is expected to shorten the time to mass market commercialisation of vehicles using the environmentally-friendly technology being developed by Quantum.
意想不到的短缺使牛奶價格一誇脫猛地上漲了好幾美分 Unexpected shortages jumped milk prices by several cents a quart.
短距離的次音速的客機。 a subsonic jet airliner operated over short distances.
金管局發行更多較長期的外匯基金債券，代替短期債券，以及定期預先公佈外匯基金債券季度發行時間表，均廣受市場歡迎。 The replacement of short-dated Exchange Fund paper by longer-dated paper and the publication of an advance quarterly issuance schedule of Exchange Fund paper were well received by the market.
不管航程多麽短, 這一班機上都有些吃的. However short the journey is, you always get something to eat on this airline.
短長格五步格詩中的四行詩，韻式是abab。 a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme.
包括三個四行詩並且以短長格五步格詩的對句結尾，韻律模式為ababcdcdefefgg的十四行詩。 a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg.
包括三個四行詩並且以短長格五步格詩的對句結尾，韻律模式為ababbcbdcdcdee的十四行詩。 a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee.