1 ADV-GRADED [ADVERB with verb, ADV adv] 不多时;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. 不多时;不久;立刻 [Also + before]
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Their trial will shortly begin.
他们的审判很快就要开始了。
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The work will be completed very shortly.
这项工作很快就会完成。
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Shortly after moving into her apartment, she found a job. [+ after]
搬进公寓不久，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记日记。
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Christine didn't answer, and shortly afterwards she left.
克里斯蒂娜没有回答，不一会儿就离开了。
SYN soon, presently, before long, anon [archaic]
2 ADV-GRADED [ADVERB after verb] 没好气地;不耐烦地;粗鲁地;气冲冲地 If you speak to someone shortly, you speak to them in a cross or impatient way. 没好气地;不耐烦地;粗鲁地;气冲冲地
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'I don't know you,' he said shortly, 'and I'm in a hurry.'
“我不认识你，”他不耐烦地说，“而且我在赶时间。”
SYN curtly, sharply, abruptly, tartly
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