Terse
[tɜːs] or [tɝs]
解释:
(superl.) Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
(superl.) Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.
(superl.) Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.
卡洛整理
同义词及近义词：
a. Concise (with elegance), brief, compact, neat, pithy, sententious, not diffuse, not verbose, not prolix, not rambling, not wordy, not loose, not long-winded, not pleonastic, not tautological.
校对:塔玛拉
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Neat, smooth, pithy, expressive, forcible, energetic, compact, concise,succinct
ANT:Coarse, rough, rude, unpolished, inconcise, unsuccinct, prolix, diffuse
编辑:迈尔斯
解释:
adj. compact or concise with smoothness or elegance: neat.—adv. Terse′ly.—ns. Terse′ness conciseness brevity; Ter′sion act of wiping.
埃塞雷德编辑
例句:
- Some years ago a certain application was made, and contained the following terse and modest sentence: I have designed a concentrating plant and built a machine shop, etc. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- His terse comment on my report was: 'Rotten. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Terse and to the point, remarked Holmes, stretching his long, thin legs towards the fire. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- In a few terse phrases he told me his opinion of, and feeling towards, the actress: he judged her as a womannot an artist: it was a branding judgment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- But perhaps the most practical and best characterization of the phonograph is given in Mr. Edison’s own terse words. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- It was short and terse, the warning, as I now read it to my companion: 'The game is up. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- The story may be told in his own terse language: I was not the inventor of the auto repeater, but while in Memphis I worked on one. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
编辑:维姬