A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
短暂
Brief
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
永远不要过于简短以至于变得晦涩难懂。
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
我努力简洁，但我变得晦涩。
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
我力求简洁，却变得晦涩难懂。
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
幸福是短暂的。它不会留下来。上帝拍打着它的船帆。
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
我一度被误认为是床上功夫不错的人，这非常非常棒。
A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.
一个好的剧本和一个好的导演简介就足以让我知道对我的期望是什么。
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
在他完全无能为力的状态下，个人把他剩下的时间看作是一个短暂的缓刑。
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里，有一段短暂的时间，某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
没有什么艺术比观察的艺术更难获得，对一些人来说，用简单明了的语言记录观察同样困难。
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
这种创造性的行为只持续了很短的一段时间，就像闪电一样的给予和接受，这段时间刚好够你把相机调平，把稍纵即逝的猎物困在你的小盒子里。
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
伟大的思想与他们所生活的短暂时间有关，正如伟大的建筑与他们所站立的小广场有关:你无法看到它们的全部大小，因为你站得离它们太近了。