It's not easy to be brief, especially on a topic you know a lot about.

想要在一个你非常了解的话题上保持简短并不容易。

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Letters terminating an agreement need to be brief and clear.

终止协议的信件必须简短明了。

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To be brief (with you), we can't accept such harsh terms.

简单地(对你)说，我们不能接受这样苛刻的条件。

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Mr Plimpton's oeuvre includes a number of movies, but his parts tended to be brief.

ECONOMIST: George Plimpton

The judgments against Mr. Riches tend to be brief, so there's not much ink or bandwidth spent on them.

NPR: Vick Joins Ranks of Those Sued by Prison Inmate

Their meeting, originally scheduled to be brief, went on for more than an hour, officials at the American Embassy said.

NEWYORKER: The Afghan Bank Heist