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词汇 tersely
释义 tersely
adverb
uk /ˈtɜːs.li/ us /ˈtɝːs.li/
using few words, sometimes in a way that seems rude or unfriendly: 简短生硬地;简要地
"Storm coming," he said tersely.“暴风雨要来了,”他生硬地说。
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"Yes, I do," he said tersely in answer to the first question of the debate - whether he thought he could "do a better job" than the president.
Both have issued tersely worded statements expressing ''concern''.
The Vatican press office issued its own medical bulletin every few days, tersely describing his continued improvement.
"Don't draw attention to me," she whispers tersely.
Mr Blair replied tersely: 'No, I won't.'
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Examples of tersely


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For reasons of space, these suggestions will be stated somewhat tersely and without elaboration.
The melody for this song is compact, tersely syllabic.
The reason, tersely put, is that history is not self-interpreting and even at its most obliging it delivers to us concepts or principles that are not self-defining or self-limiting.
For the sake of convenience, we tersely review the relevant definitions and connections, although the reader is expected to have some basic knowledge of graphs, matroids and linear algebra.
In this paper we have demonstrated that typed feature structures can tersely express and solve simple, apparently finite-domain, generation of alternative mappings of function into form in the building domain.
He said rather tersely that he would prefer to have a steel helmet.
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I did not expect that the truth, so tersely stated, would have evoked such hilarity.
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It was done tersely and casually, and in a way which seemed to be quite ill-informed.
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It could not be put more tersely or more correctly.
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If we are, as he tersely puts it, squealing at all it is because we are not protecting our shipping adequately.
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I am coming round to the opposite point of view, but he has given me the opportunity to make it more tersely.
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That, put briefly and tersely, is the reason why they propose to make this change.
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The case can be put simply and tersely.
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I regretted that it was necessary for him to do so, but his contribution was extremely valuable and most concisely and tersely put.
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I put it rather tersely, because it ought to be so put at this stage.
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