核心畫面
You can think of 'shortly' as 'short' turned into how things happen — a SHORT amount of something. With time, it means a short gap from now (soon). With speech, it means using short, words, which comes across as impatient. Both senses are just 'short' applied to a different thing.
可以把 shortly 想成把 short（短）變成「事情怎麼發生」的副詞——「短短的一段」。用在時間上，就是離現在…更多收起
可以把 shortly 想成把 short（短）變成「事情怎麼發生」的副詞——「短短的一段」。用在時間上，就是離現在只有短短一段間隔，也就是「不久、很快」；用在說話上，就是用很短、很乾的幾個字回應人，聽起來就顯得不耐煩。兩個意思其實都只是把「短」套在不同的東西上。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
shortlyadv/ˈʃɔɹtli/
- 1
In a short or brief time or manner; quickly.
- […] his two ill-conditioned, canine favorites, which sat shivering before the smoky little fire, barking shortly and sharply now and then, by way of hinting for some slight refreshment.
- 2
In or after a short time; soon.
- The past perfect progressive is used for actions and situations which had continued up to a past moment or shortly before it.
- No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
- 3
In few words.
- Ideas are generally expressed more shortly in verse than in prose
- We shall not describe this tragical scene too fully; but we thought ourselves obliged, by that historic integrity which we profess, shortly to hint a matter which we would otherwise have been glad to have spared.
- 4
In an irritable ("short") manner.
- "Stop interrupting me, will ya?" she said shortly.
- 'Well, I still think it was a rather off-hand way for you—for anyone—to behave,' he said shortly. Suddenly Melody felt trapped—and annoyed. And she didn't like being spoken to like a child, either.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。