to be brief

基本解释

Social gatherings are not job interviews, so it pays to be brief.
社交聚会并不是工作面试，所以要简短。
This was intentional: to be brief but still offer a good understanding of what is involved in this process.
这是有意而为之的：为了保持简练，同时仍然提供对该过程涉及到的内容的足够了解。
But because Bonnie relatively weak, Allen expects the work stoppage to be brief—though it will take longer to get the relief well drilling rigs back and ready to work.
但是鉴于邦妮事实上强度很弱，艾伦期望迁移工作可以停止，尽管减压井重新恢复工作还需要很长时间。

"In recent years, the development of rapid, diagnostic tests for malaria, also known as RDTs, which can be performed by healthcare workers after a brief training has made the extension of diagnostic testing to rural health facilities possible."
There'll be a brief period in which, as a cadaver I suppose, my heart will continue to exist.
在我死亡后很短的时间内,我的心脏将会继续存在
耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选
Section for On the Road will probably be next week unless your TF wants to bring up some brief questions about it, but that's all for today.
在路上这个作品的讨论课可能是在下周,除非你们的TF想让你们提出一些简单的问题，好吧今天就到这里。
耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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