| 单词 | concise |
| 释义 | con·cise 1. 2. < the effect is a concise panorama of the city's character — American Guide Series: Texas > Synonyms: < Carruthers took a telegram from his pocket … It was short and concise: “The old man is dead” — A. Conan Doyle > < he [Gladstone] asked whether he should be … concise, and Peel told him to be long and diffuse — Times Literary Supplement > terse may imply finish and pointedness in addition to brevity < as a lecturer his command of terse English enabled him to give a maximum of instruction with a minimum of words — J.M.Phalen > < terse headlines are another part of the Tribune's campaign to save newsprint — New Yorker > succinct implies extreme compactness and compression < a book must have a title and today it must have a succinct title; therefore this book appears as Richelieu — Hilaire Belloc > laconic indicates shortness to the point of seeming brusque, unconcerned, or mysterious < again he paused longer, and raised his eyebrows still more. “It is sold, sir,” was again his laconic reply — Bram Stoker > < the laconic announcement was made … that the sentences of death had been carried out — Manchester Guardian Weekly > summary suggests the treatment of main points with no elaboration or additional explanation; it may apply to treatments and actions done with much promptness or even brusqueness < a presentation as summary as is compatible with an adequate statement of the available information — Internat'l Labor Office Recent Publications > < a summary redress … was … provided by the crown in a royal proclamation — J.R.Green > < she seemed surprised, and offended … and waved us out of the house. Summary as the dismissal was, court etiquet no doubt required our compliance — Herman Melville > pithy suggests a wealth of forcible or telling material briefly presented < a brief, pithy, and, as it then appeared to him, unanswerable argument against the immortality of the human soul — Nathaniel Hawthorne > compendious applies to treatments at once full and comprehensive and brief and concise < it would reduce all the feet and combinations of feet to compendious and intelligible formulas — R.W.Chapman > |
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