Curt
[kɜːt] or [kɝt]
解释:
(a.) Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.
手打:蒙塔古
同义词及近义词：
a. Short (usually in an ill sense, implying crustiness), brief, concise, terse, laconic.
安尼塔整理
解释:
adj. short: concise: discourteously brief or summary.—adj. Curt′āte shortened or reduced; applied to the distance of a planet from the sun or earth reduced to the plane of the ecliptic.—n. Curtā′tion.—adv. Curt′ly.—n. Curt′ness.
霍奇编辑
例句:
- She wished that he would go, as he had once spoken of doing, instead of sitting there, answering with curt sentences all the remarks she made. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Paul would not stand any prolonged experience of this sort of dialogue I knew; but he certainly merited a sample of the curt and arid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- This curt reply brought the Earl in person to Becky's apartment; but he could get no more success than the first ambassador. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Lydgate uttered this speech in the curt hammering way with which we usually try to nail down a vague mind to imperative facts. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
整理:梅尔巴