| 单词 | compendium |
| 释义 | com·pen·di·um 1. a. < a one-volume compendium of the multivolume original > b. < a compendium of physics > c. < a compendium of all the fashionable faults likely to be found in a young … novelist — Time > 2. archaic 3. Synonyms: < A Treatise on Epidemic Cholera which contained little original matter but was published as a compendium of the existing knowledge of this disease — W.R.Steiner > A syllabus, often presented with a series of headings, points, or propositions, gives concise statements affording a view of the whole and an indication of its significance < no party program, no official syllabus of opinions, which we all have to defend — W.R.Inge > A digest presents a body of information gathered from many sources and arranged and classified for ready accessibility, often alphabetized and indexed; the word also indicates any condensed easy-to-read version < the only hope of gaining such knowledge lies in a summarization and thorough digest of the huge body of county statistics already available — D.J.Bogue > < the Current Digest of the Soviet Press, now in its fifth year of uninterrupted weekly appearance, a seventy-thousand word a week digest of forty Russian newspapers and periodicals — Mortimer Graves > A pandect is a systematic digest covering the whole of a monumental subject < no printed body of modern social history, either by purpose or accident, contains a richer pandect of the efficient impulses of its age — Christopher Morley > A survey is a brief comprehensive presentation giving main outlines, often as a preliminary aid to later study of more detailed treatment < the policy of the Board and its founder being to make first of all a thorough survey of the educational needs of the country — J.D.Greene > < an essay on the Renaissance, not a history of the Renaissance. It omits mention of many interesting details of the vast transformation in an effort to determine, through a broad survey of its more salient features, the fundamental nature of the movement — G.C.Sellery > A sketch is a slight tentative preliminary presentation subject to much later change, emendation, and amplification < to give anything but the most fragmentary sketch of the winter of '94 and '95 in Berlin is impossible — David Fairchild > < The American Chancery Digest, including state and federal equity decisions, with an introductory sketch of equity courts and their jurisdiction — V.L.Wilkinson > A précis is a concise clear-cut statement or restatement of main matters, often a report or a summary suggesting the style or tone of an original < a carefully prepared critical text of Guido, with a short critical introduction, a full critical apparatus, and English précis printed concurrently — Times Literary Supplement > An aperçu is a sketch giving a very quick, perhaps impressionistic compression of the whole, with all details omitted < popular books which give an aperçu of recent research, in order to have some idea of the general scientific purpose served by particular facts and laws — Bertrand Russell > |
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