1 ADV-GRADED [ADVERB with verb, ADV adv] 不多時;不久;立刻 If something happens
shortly after or before something else, it happens not long after or before it. If something is going to happen
shortly, it is going to happen soon.
不多時;不久;立刻 [Also + before] -
Their trial will shortly begin.
他們的審判很快就要開始了。
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The work will be completed very shortly.
這項工作很快就會完成。
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Shortly after moving into her apartment, she found a job. [+ after]
搬進公寓不久,她就找到了份工作。
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She kept a diary until shortly before her death.
直到去世前不久她都一直在記日記。
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Christine didn't answer, and shortly afterwards she left.
克裏斯蒂娜沒有回答,不一會兒就離開了。
2 ADV-GRADED [ADVERB after verb] 沒好氣地;不耐煩地;粗魯地;氣沖沖地 If you speak to someone
shortly, you speak to them in a cross or impatient way.
沒好氣地;不耐煩地;粗魯地;氣沖沖地 -
'I don't know you,' he said shortly, 'and I'm in a hurry.'
“我不認識你,”他不耐煩地說,“而且我在趕時間。”
SYN curtly, sharply, abruptly, tartly
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