brief是什么意思？

She'd wake up early, turn on her laptop and chat on Internet dating sites and instant-messaging programs – leaving her bed for only brief intervals.

Make a brief self-introduction on the phone.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

Professor Henderson, could you give us a brief overview of what you do, where you work and your main area of research? I have many Business English students.

In one of the study's experiments, subjects were given a brief description of a man from Chicago with the last name Williams.

The client company generallygives the advertising agency an agreed budget, a statement of theobjective of the advertising campaign known as a brief and an overall advertising strategy concerning the message to be communicated to the target customers.

By the 1950s, most schools required a brief personal statement of why the student had chosen to apply to one school over another.

But there is also time for brief diversions onto bizarre ground, such as a discussion of the skyscraper index (which holds that a boom in skyscraper construction is a foolproof sign of an imminent recessio.

When those were finished, she concluded the session with a brief restatement of how the new system would improve security and peace of mind in the municipal building.

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable " suborbital " flights — brief ventures just to the edge of space's vast darkness.

For a brief moment during that stage of its life cycle, the tongue consists of two tiny half-tubes before merging into one.

I'll start with a brief review of the reasons for the change that we really need to make a clean break to restart growth.

Professor Henderson, could you give us a brief overview of what you do, where you work and your main area of research?