短暂的仅限于一个插曲持续的时间；短暂的 Limited to the duration of an episode; temporary.
可惜这些文化热潮都是短暂的，过后又恢复常态。 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.
吟唱圣经引自《使徒书信》和《福音书》之间的用于吟唱的一段圣经短文 A biblical text sung between the Epistle and the Gospel of the Mass.
短祷告在特定日子里所念的短的正式的祈祷文 A brief formal prayer that is used in various Western liturgies before the epistle and that varies with the day.
纪比世长比代短的时间单位 A unit of time, longer than an epoch and shorter than an era.
刚果非洲中西部一国家，在大西洋海岸有很短的海岸线。它在1960年独立前是法属赤道非洲的一部分。布拉柴维尔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.
与春分或秋分（昼夜长短一致）有关。 relating to an equinox (when the lengths or night and day are equal).
二分时刻一天中太阳通过天赤道的两个时刻中的任一时刻，此时昼夜长短几乎相等；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.
含糊其词的短语意义模糊的、短语、表达 An equivocal word, phrase, or expression.
白天变得越来越短。 The day becomes more and more short(ly)er.
在很短的时间内，就使卖淫这种在旧中国屡禁不绝、严重摧残妇女身心和侮辱妇女人格的社会痼疾绝迹，社会面貌为之一新。 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.
灰额主红雀一种大型，有冠的雀科鸣鸟（灰额主红雀红交嘴鸟属）产于墨西哥以及美国西南部，长有灰色和红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，咒语变戏法的人常用的无意义的词或短语 Nonsense words or phrases used as a formula by quack conjurers.
一种四拍的舞厅舞蹈；由短和快和慢和快固定的顺序组成。 a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences.
四周抛跳是否会出现在自由滑比赛中将取决于短节目比赛的结果和他们在自由滑抽签中的最后结果。 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.
过眼烟云虚幻的、不现实的或短暂存在的东西 Something that is airy, insubstantial, or passing.
鹑鹌属旧大陆的一种小的短粗尾的鹌鹑（鹌鹑），具有沙色的有条纹的羽毛，通常用于实验室的研究工作 A small, stub-tailed Eurasian quail(Coturnix coturnix) having sandy, streaked plumage and commonly used in laboratory research.
45.典型的鹌鹑都长有短而圆的翅膀，凭此他们可以在受惊时一跃而起，飞离它们的躲藏地。 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，插入词在书写中插入的与上下文的语法结构没有关系的限定或补充的词、短语或句子 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.
音节长短在音量的诗歌中某音节的音长 The duration of a syllable in quantitative verse.
弱音节音步中短的或非重读的部分，尤指在长短步诗中 The short or unaccented part of a metrical foot, especially in quantitative verse.
莫勒表示时间的节律系统中最小的音节单位，其时间值相当于一个普通短音节 The minimal unit of metrical time in quantitative verse, equal to the short syllable.
长音节的拆分或替换一个韵律元素替代另一个，尤指在数量韵文中用两个短音节替代一个长音节 The substitution of one metrical unit for another, especially the substitution of two short syllables for one long syllable in quantitative verse.
短量险 Risk of shortage in weight/quantity
二者结盟预计将缩短昆腾公司开发的环保汽车技术大规模投放市场的时间。 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价格一夸脱猛地上涨了好几美分 Unexpected shortages jumped milk prices by several cents a quart.
短距离的次音速的客机。 a subsonic jet airliner operated over short distances.
金管局发行更多较长期的外汇基金债券，代替短期债券，以及定期预先公布外汇基金债券季度发行时间表，均广受市场欢迎。 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, 这一班机上都有些吃的. However short the journey is, you always get something to eat on this airline.
短长格五步格诗中的四行诗，韵式是abab。 a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme.
包括三个四行诗并且以短长格五步格诗的对句结尾，韵律模式为ababcdcdefefgg的十四行诗。 a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg.
包括三个四行诗并且以短长格五步格诗的对句结尾，韵律模式为ababbcbdcdcdee的十四行诗。 a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee.