| 单词 | in short and plain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin short and plain a. in short (also Scottish. †at short): briefly, concisely. From the 18th cent. onwards used only as parenthetical phrase, introducing or accompanying a summary statement of what has been previously said. †in short and plain: briefly and plainly. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adverb] > in short at a (also one) wordOE at few wordsOE shortly1303 in short wordsc1380 oncec1384 in short and plainc1386 in sum?a1425 at short wordsa1450 at short1513 briefly?1521 in a word1522 in one word1522 with a word1522 summa1535 to be short1544 in (the) fine1545 in few1550 summarily1567 in a sum1574 in shorta1577 in brief1609 briefa1616 in a little1623 tout court1747 sans phrase1808 in a nutshell1822 in nuce1854 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adverb] > straightforwardly or directly platc1375 in short and plainc1386 plaina1387 platlyc1390 in (also at, on, unto) (a, the) plainc1395 roundc1405 homelya1413 directly1509 roundly1528 point-blank1598 in good set termsa1616 broadly1624 crudely1638 plain downa1640 plumply1726 plumpa1734 squably1737 straightforward1809 unvarnishedly1824 pine-blank1834 blankly1846 squarely1860 straight out1874 straightforwardly1906 c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 521 He tolde him point for point, in short and playn. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. x. 79 Thus said he, and with sic wordis at schort Mesapus to the fycht he did exhort. 1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. B2v Att schorte ȝe daylie do aduert To serue ȝour God, with faithfull hert. a1577 Ferrers in G. Gascoigne Princelie Pleasures Kenelworth sig. A.ijv, in Whole Wks. (1587) Though haste say on, let sute obtaine some stay,..While that in short my state I doe display. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. i. sig. Ii7 Upon Philosophical Disquisitions or Experiments..or (in short) upon some such other thing as seems extrinsecal to the Doctrine that is according to Godliness. 1666 Countess of Warwick Diary 19 Aug. in A. Walker Mem. Lady Warwick (1847) 77 I overslept myself in the morning, and was fain only in short to recommend myself to God for that day. 1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 413 I shall not think much to tell you in short what I think. 1714 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements (rev. ed.) Pref. I shall here explain it to you in short. 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 17 May (1932) (modernized text) III. 1151 And, in short, [they] put themselves in every attitude but the right. 1833 H. Martineau French Wines & Politics iv. 61 These were, in short, the Orleans mob. 1845 C. Dickens Cricket on Hearth ii. 57 The Blind Girl..never knew that Tackleton was Tackleton in short. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xi. 176 Nothing in short was wanting to complete the beau ideal of domestic comfort. 1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 13 In short, my object is to instruct those who desire to become photographers. < as lemmas |
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