Curt
[kɜːt] or [kɝt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.
手打:蒙塔古
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Short (usually in an ill sense, implying crustiness), brief, concise, terse, laconic.
安尼塔整理
解釋/意思:
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.
霍奇編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- 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. 維萊特.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Lydgate uttered this speech in the curt hammering way with which we usually try to nail down a vague mind to imperative facts. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
整理:梅尔巴