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terse [tɜːs] ADJ

terse

(演讲等)简明的 jiǎnmíngde

terse

精炼的 jīngliànde

▶ tersely ADJ

▶ terseness N

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English

It is written in the very terse style typical of sutra literature, in which each line is an aid to memory for a complex system. en.wikipedia.org

These terse exclamations are meant to draw the reader to her side of the argument (it is assumed that the reader will agree with them). en.wikipedia.org

This definition, while terse and commonly used, is suboptimal for certain purposes because it contains an existential quantifier which is not really necessary. en.wikipedia.org

The metadata is not compressed, but is expressed in a terse representation that is more space-efficient than conventional file systems. en.wikipedia.org

The information and style in the recipes is very terse. en.wikipedia.org

The first entries are terse and not always helpful, expanding as successive secretarys became more conscientious. en.wikipedia.org

The terse syntax minimized the number of keystrokes needed to prepare the correction tape. en.wikipedia.org

C, on the other hand, was written to be very terse (syntactically) and to get more text on the screen. en.wikipedia.org

The character only speaks short sentences, throughout the film, all terse, short statements. en.wikipedia.org

Instead, users modify the document text by entering terse commands on a text-only terminal. en.wikipedia.org

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