词汇 | brevity |
释义 | brevity noun[ U ] uk /ˈbrev.ə.ti/ us /ˈbrev.ə.t̬i/ using only a few words or lasting only a short time: 简短,简洁;短暂 His essays are models of clarity and brevity.他的散文简洁、清晰,堪称典范。 Brevity is, in almost everything, a virtue.几乎在任何情况下,简洁都是一种美德。 Not saying much a few well-chosen wordsidiom abruptly abruptness boo briefly cat concisely conciseness crisp gnomic incommunicative laconic laconically monosyllabic monosyllabically not say booidiom pithily quietness taciturn well chosen You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Short in time brevity | American Dictionarybrevity noun[ U ] us/ˈbrev·ɪ·t̬i/ the use of few words: The essays were written with admirable brevity. Brevity can also mean a short time: the brevity of life Examples of brevitybrevity For brevity, only the results using the multiple index model are reported. First, the brevity of the trial restricts our understanding to the short-term effect of liquid fluoxetine in autism. For the sake of brevity, we have refrained from a detailed exposition. The book has the additional merits of clarity and brevity. Besides, a street context naturally lends itself to brevity, no matter the language. Given this brevity, the analysis is necessarily somewhat summary and short on detail. Given the brevity of most office visits, the challenge of detecting and assessing depression in so many polysymptomatic patients can be an onerous task. The brevity of his exclamation may be attributed to opera-comique conventions confining elaborate self-expression to arias. Although the results are omitted for reasons of brevity, these heuristics always performed significantly worse than the local, push, and pull heuristics. For purposes of brevity, the autoregressive coefficients are not reported here. For brevity's sake, we will refer to it as an "electric potential" field. For the sake of brevity, the format for sigla previously described is employed here. Because we expect users to write these specifications rarely, we value clarity over brevity. My rendition will be brief, its brevity hopefully excusable because by now it is very familiar. The length of the book is deliberately short and this produces a sense of brevity in some of the chapters. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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