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词汇 briefly
释义 briefly
adverb
uk /ˈbriːf.li/ us /ˈbriːf.li/

brieflyadverb (SHORT TIME)


B1
for a short time: 片刻;暂时
We chatted briefly about the weather.我们聊了几句天气。
She appears briefly in the new Bond film.她在新的007电影中有几个镜头。
He was briefly famous in his twenties but then sank into obscurity.他在20来岁时曾一度小有名气,但随后便湮没无闻了。
He appears briefly towards the end of the film in a cameo role as a priest.在影片接近尾声时,他露面客串了一下牧师。
She worked briefly as a journalist, but attracted attention as a writer with her stories of village life.
He made his living briefly as a newspaper reporter before getting into politics.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Short in time
abbreviated
at a moment's/two hours'/three weeks', etc. noticeidiom
awhile
be short noticeidiom
bite-sized
blink
bout
brief
dose
in small dosesidiom
in the blink of an eyeidiom
instant
jiffy
mayfly
minute
shortness
snatched
split second
transient
transiently

brieflyadverb (FEW WORDS)


using few words or without giving a lot of details: 简言之,一言以蔽之
Briefly, the company needs to cut its expenditure.简言之,公司需要缩减开支。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not saying much
a few well-chosen wordsidiom
abruptly
abruptness
boo
cat
concisely
conciseness
crisp
gnomic
incommunicative
laconic
laconically
monosyllabic
monosyllabically
not say booidiom
pithily
quietly
quietness
taciturn
well chosen

briefly | American Dictionary


briefly
adverb
us/ˈbrif·li/
for a short time or using few words:
We chatted briefly about the weather.

Examples of briefly


briefly
In this section we briefly describe the architecture of the overall system in order to situate the environment of our work.
Here we will just briefly discuss the most interesting aspects of this development.
We end this section by briefly defining a structural congruence of the -calculus.
Circumambulatory/intra-ambulatory was considered (albeit briefly) but rejected as too unwieldy.
In order to better understand the examples, this section describes the system briefly.
I will briefly summarise the seven parts, providing chapter titles.
However, it is appropriate briefly to summarize the arguments on why and how this change came about.
Section 6 briefly discusses the case when public debt is zero.
We briefly describe the main differences with the above proof.
Thus, these experiences can only be briefly alluded to here.
We shall briefly discuss this in the last part of this section.
We now turn briefly to the stability of this solution.
Let me briefly situate my article and its aims as a prologue to discussion.
We might look briefly at a design situation to understand this more concretely.
Let us now briefly review our data to see how this can be inferred from the empirical facts we have described.
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