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单词 to make short
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to make (it) short
h. to make (it) short: to lose no time, hasten.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > act expeditiously
to make (it) short1490
dispatch1581
to be brief1609
to claw it off1615
to dance Barnaby1664
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xx. 73 Hie the, and make it shorte, mounte vpon the see, and tarye no lenger.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxv. 15/2 Within a certayn day lymitted, to auoyde out of his countrey the erle of Artoyse, & to make shorte.
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to make short
d. elliptically to make short: to cut one's speech short. Also as infinitive phrase: ‘to make a long story short’; to be brief. Const. of. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > be concise or brief [verb (intransitive)]
to be at a (also one) wordOE
to make short1556
to be brief1588
abbreviate1596
to cut short1691
to cut (also make) a long story short1732
to make short of long1883
1556 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 246 Whereby the lord Williams cried, Make short, make short.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. viii. 9 And to make shorte,..this tower was made..for the garding and keeping of the fountayne.
1600 J. Lyly Loves Metamorphosis iv. ii. 9 (Bond) To make short, a good wind caused him to goe I know not whither.
1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. viii. 142 But to make short of this Argument.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) viii. 109 To make short of this matter.
1738 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 640/1 To make short of my Story: In order [etc.].
1823 New Monthly Mag. 9 200/1 To make short of the story, Celso..is put in possession.
extracted from shortadj.n.adv.
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