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形容词形式：short→相关词：soon(很快，副词)；quickly(迅速地，副词)；later(后来，副词)
易混词辨析
shortly、soon、quickly、soon after
1. shortly：副词 “不久；立刻；简短地”（如 “shortly after”“arrive shortly”“speak shortly”）；
2. soon：副词 “不久；很快”（如 “come soon”“soon enough”，与 shortly（不久）近义，更通用）；
3. quickly：副词 “快速地；迅速地”（如 “run quickly”“finish quickly”，侧重 “速度快”，无 “时间近” 含义）；
4. soon after：短语 “不久之后”（如 “soon after lunch”“soon after arrival”，与 shortly after 近义）。
重要短语
shortly after不久之后，很快
shortly before前不久；在...之前不久
shortly afterwards不久以后；没过多久
精选例句
1、 He will arrive at the station shortly.
他很快就会到达车站。（副词，表“不久、很快”，中考常考时间类副词，易与soon混淆）
来源:【中考难度例句】秒词邦编辑整理
2、 The turning point for me came shortly after I got married.
对我来说，转折点是在我结婚后不久出现的。
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1、 Sometimes, because a housewarming party happens shortly after a person moves into their new home, people may be asked to help unpack boxes.
有时，因为乔迁派对是在一个人搬进新家后不久举行的，人们可能会被要求帮助打开箱子。
来源:2020年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试
1、 However, after a lifetime of moving within the circles of power, he was unable to break with authority, and served Mussolini faithfully ( as president of Italy's national research council and royal academy, as well as a member of the Fascist Grand Council) until the day he died-conveniently-in 1937, shortly before he would have had to take a stand in the conflict that consumed a world that he had, in part, created .
然而，在权力圈内活动了一辈子之后，他无法与权威划清界限，并忠实地为墨索里尼服务(作为意大利国家研究委员会和皇家科学院的主席，以及法西斯大委员会的成员)，直到1937年他去世的那一天——很巧的是——不久之后，他将不得不在这场消耗了他部分创造的世界的冲突中表明立场。
来源:2021年6月六级第1套题句子搭配题
1、 Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.
内维尔·卡德斯从1917年开始为《曼彻斯特卫报》撰稿，直到1975年去世前不久，他现在只以写板球文章而为人所知。
来源:2010年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语（一）Text 1
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