terse

英 [tɜːs]

美 [tɜːrs]

adj.  简要的; 简短生硬的

比较级：terser　

IELTSGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.18591 / COCA.17917

牛津词典

adj.

• 简要的；简短生硬的
  using few words and often not seeming polite or friendly
  1. a terse style
     生硬冷漠的风格
  2. The President issued a terse statement denying the charges.
     总统发表了一份简短的声明，否认那些指控。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （声明、评论）简短的,短促的,无礼的
  Atersestatement or comment is brief and unfriendly.
  1. He issued a terse statement, saying he is discussing his future with colleagues before announcing his decision on Monday...
     他发表了简短声明，称他正在和同事讨论他的未来，并将于星期一宣布他的决定。
  2. His tone was terse as he asked the question.
     他提问时语气生硬。

英英释义

adj

• brief and to the point
  1. a crisp retort
  2. a response so curt as to be almost rude
  3. the laconic repl
  4. short and terse and easy to understand
  Synonym:crispcurtlaconic

双语例句

• See how terse that code is?
  看看这段代码有多么简洁？
• Gaelyk is a Groovy framework whose terse syntax and coding shortcuts I'll leverage to quickly build my GAE web application.
  Gaelyk是Groovy框架，我将利用其简洁的语法和编码快捷方式来快速地建立我的GAEweb应用程序。
• Be terse and ask them what they might do in your situation.
  问一问他们他们在你的情况下可能做什么。
• For example, you might find the names used in the database too terse or verbose; or the names might be in a foreign language.
  例如，您可能会发现数据库中使用的名称太简洁或太罗嗦了，或者名称使用的是外语。
• Your name Terse but just fine in many circumstances.
  Yourname虽然简洁，但是在很多情况下都适用。
• His tone was terse as he asked the question.
  他提问时语气生硬。
• The terse syntax is attractive to professional programmer, and the compilers generate very deficient object code.
  C语言简洁的语法对专业编程人员很有吸引力，而且它的编译程序能够产生高效的目标代码。
• This code cheats a little by doubling a few of the shorter lines, but you can see that Tcl/ Tk is a remarkably terse language.
  这段代码中存在一些假像，即将长代码行划分为较短的代码行，但是您可以看到，Tcl/Tk是一种非常简洁的语言。
• The book was a collection of terse, powerful articles.
  这本书是一本行文简练有力的短文集。
• Experience has shown that a more verbose topic space is preferable to a terse, less descriptive space.
  经验表明，详细描述的主题空间要比简单扼要的空间更可取。