IT WAS one of the shortest-lived revolutions ever.
这是有史以来最短寿的革命之一。Most prime ministers, especially the short-lived kind, are remembered for a single achievement or, more often, for one defining failure.
对于大多数首相（尤其是那些短寿的）来说，人们能记得的只是他们的某项成就，或者更多时候是某个决定性的失败而已。In any case, some think many jobs produced by the 38 enterprise zones set up in the 1980s were expensive and short-lived.
总而言之，有些人认为在80年代设立的企业聚集区所创造出的就业机会是短寿且昂贵的。The various garbage collection strategies perform very differently depending on the mix of short -lived and long-lived objects .
根据短寿对象和长寿对象的混合比例，不同垃圾收集策略的性能会有非常大的差别。There were only 13 mice in each group, which were all relatively short-lived.
每组仅有十三只实验鼠，全都相对短寿。For the first time, small, short-lived spicules have been clocked jetting million-degree plasma into the corona.
人们第一次发现小而短寿的针状体将上百万度的等离子体喷射到日冕层；A few years ago, a new kind of faster, shorter-lived spicule was discovered.
过去几年中，一种快速而短寿的新型针状体被发现。It used be thought that men died sooner than women because of fast living, violence and reckless behaviour.
人们一度认为，男子比女子短寿，是由于生活节奏快、暴力活动和行为莽撞。Is this a good evolutionary adaptation, or is it going to lead us to being the shortest-lived hominid species on planet Earth?
这究竟是一个有益的进化过程，还是我们向着地球上最短寿灵长动物这个方向发展的必经之路？