after a little

基本解释

After a little while, the moon lifted itself above the eastern hills.
少焉，月出于东山之上。
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If you lose it again, if the other person says something challenging, then after a little while you remember – and you go back into the inner body.
如果你再次丢失了它，如果另一个人说了什么有挑战性的话，然后过了一会儿你重新记起 - 你继续回到内在身体。
After a little time， she chose one of the most expensive dresses in the shop and handed it to an assistant who wrapped it up for her as quickly as possible.
过了一会儿，她又选了商场里最昂贵的一件衣服，把它递给了售货员。那售货员以最快的速度为她包好了衣服。

A person attaches a tube to the goat and, after a little pumping, the milk begins to flow.
This is Harako and she is named after a little girl I met in Japan.
她叫Harako，是以,我在日本遇到的一个小女孩的名字命名的。
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So, we'll take a little bit of a step back after we introduce quantum mechanics, and talk about light as a wave, and the characteristic of waves, and then light as a particle. And one example of this is in the photoelectric effect.
等我们介绍完量子力学后,我们要回过头来讨论下光,作为一种波和它的波动性特征,以及光作为一种粒子,其中的一个粒子就是光电效应。
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After a little online research, I discovered this phenomenon is called the health halo effect.
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