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词汇 example_english_short-spell
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short spell

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meanings of shortand spell


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short
adjective
uk /ʃɔːt/ us /ʃɔːrt/
small in length, distance, ...
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spell
noun[C]
uk /spel/ us /spel/
a period of time for which an activity or condition ...
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Examples of short spell


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Home tuition was never continuous, but usually for a year or two, and it was never available while the patient was experiencing a shortspell of absence-i. e.
I joined the teaching profession in 1960 after a shortspell in engineering.
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I had a shortspell of attachment there.
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One such change is for those who suffer a shortspell of sickness.
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Those seeking asylum will spend a shortspell in induction centres.
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Surely all this anxiety could be lessened for those patients if they could have a shortspell in a hostel.
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In the shortspell of six months, it has seen the situation collapse at an alarming rate.
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Those sentences do not deter career burglars, for whom the occasional shortspell in prison has become an acceptable occupational hazard.
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If he thinks that a shortspell in the "house" will be followed by a shortspell in the training centre, let us try it.
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In practice, we have had only a shortspell of cold weather so far this winter.
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That has led to unreasonable restrictions being placed upon consumers whenever there has been a shortspell of fine weather.
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It covered the care of patients released after a shortspell in hospital as well as of those who have received long-term care.
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This covered the care of patients released after a shortspell in hospital, as well as those who have received long-term care.
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It touches their pride, especially when they see much younger men, who have had a comparatively shortspell of work drawing full benefit.
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The truth of the matter is that far too many career burglars regard a shortspell in prison as nothing more than an occupational hazard.
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Anyone who thinks for a moment that steel workers or blast furnace men have ever been feather-bedded should try a shortspell in the industry.
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There ought to be more encouragement to give people a taster by starting off a suspended sentence with a shortspell in prison.
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Some sentences could start off with a shortspell in prison, with the person coming out on licence for the rest of the sentence, unless he committed further offences.
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Some of these people perhaps need the use of a lorry just for the purpose of taking the test—or perhaps for a shortspell of refresher driving.
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