Brief

(noun.) a condensed written summary or abstract.

(noun.) a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case.

(verb.) give essential information to someone; 'The reporters were briefed about the President's plan to invade'.

(adj.) concise and succinct; 'covered the matter in a brief statement' .

(adj.) of short duration or distance; 'a brief stay in the country' .

手打:露西娅

• He made that brief reply warmly, dropping his hand on the table while he spoke, and turning towards us again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They were scheming to outdo one another, to rob weaker contemporaries, to destroy rivals, so that they might for a brief interval swagger. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was a brief interval, they heard a door close, then Maxim said, in his refined voice: 'That's all right. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• A cursory examination of the latter revealed no mortal injuries and after a brief rest he asserted that he felt fit to attempt the return voyage. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• To be brief, their kind attention and my own excellent constitution triumphed over the fever, which had been very severe during five days. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• And I have no doubt that the time taken by the court would be enormously less, because if a judge attempts to read the bulky records and briefs, that work alone would require several days. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He has a kind of talent for drawing briefs, and stating a case in writing, plainly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The Edison concentrating plant has been sketched in the briefest outline with a view of affording merely a bare idea of the great work of its projector. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Herein then are set forth in briefest space the preliminaries of a circuit of the globe in quest of fibre. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I can give here only the briefest abstract of the more important facts. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• One hemisphere will have a short hot summer and a very cold winter, and the other a long cold summer and a briefer warmish winter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

整理:瓦莱丽