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词汇 example_english_brief-encounter
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brief encounter

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meanings of briefand encounter


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brief
adjective
uk /briːf/ us /briːf/
lasting only a short time or containing ...
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encounter
noun[C]
uk /ɪnˈkaʊn.tər/ us /ɪnˈkaʊn.t̬ɚ/
a meeting, especially one that happens ...
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Examples of brief encounter


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In many ways the model is reminiscent of a state of social anomie, in which isolated individuals without historical ties drift from one briefencounter to another.
What are the qualities to be spotted in a briefencounter?
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Extra time for reflection gives more time for the new romance to show itself as a briefencounter.
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I had one briefencounter with the local mosquitoes.
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After a briefencounter with a vengeful pirate, an explosion sound goes off and the boat drops into the pool.
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The object allegedly flew away after their briefencounter.
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Like lexs unfinished script, their briefencounter, too, remains an unwritten fiction charged with imagined possibility and resigned regret.
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The regime was attempting to use them to repress the mass protests, but after a briefencounter they ended up joining the protests.
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What follows is a briefencounter of two people very much in love but destined to be apart.
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Little did he realize then the significance of this briefencounter.
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How did staff maintain order and fix relations in these brief encounters?
The briefencounter comes at great cost.
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Scared of the bandits that plague these parts, especially after a briefencounter with them, the two are glad to find an inn in the middle of the forest.
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The patients' expectations, their ideas, have been affected by their brief encounters with 'the girls on the desk'.
Chapin believed that close and prolonged contact between people was necessary to spread the tubercle infection, rather than brief encounters with the bacilli in the air in the street.
For the same reason, they spent most of their lives in cages and were permitted only brief encounters with human beings.
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In part, perhaps, because he was so unreconciled to his longings, he limited himself for a long time to brief encounters.
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Frowns also contribute to impressions formed even during brief encounters with other individuals.
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