brevity 英 [ˈbrevəti]   美 [ˈbrɛvɪti]

brevity

brevity  英 [ˈbrevəti] 美 [ˈbrɛvɪti]

n. 简洁,简短;短暂,短促 

名词复数:brevities 

Embrace brevity, but do not sacrifice readability. 拥抱简洁,但不要牺牲可读性。
As Pater said of life, there is an "awful brevity" to technology. 佩特曾说,生活中有一种“可畏的简洁”,科技亦是如此。

  • The noun brevity means shortness or conciseness. If you give a report on agriculture in the northern hemisphere in 3 minutes, you have done it with incredible brevity.
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  • n. 简洁,简短;短暂,短促
  • 1. Embrace brevity, but do not sacrifice readability.

    拥抱简洁,但不要牺牲可读性。

  • 2. As Pater said of life, there is an "awful brevity" to technology.

    佩特曾说,生活中有一种“可畏的简洁”,科技亦是如此。

  • 3. The patterns are no less accurate for their brevity — and in some cases their descriptions are also more precise — but they are summarised and much of the plumbing detail is omitted.

    模式并不会因为本身的简洁而变得不精确——在某些情形下,它们的描述还更准确了--而是它们被概括并忽略了很多不必要的细节。

  • brevity (n.) "shortness," especially in speech or writing, c. 1500, from Latin brevitatem (nominative brevitas) "shortness" in space or time, from brevis "short" (from PIE root *mregh-u- "short").
brev·ity AWL / ˈbrevəti ; NAmE ˈbrevəti / noun [uncountable ] ( formal) 1 the quality of using few words when speaking or writing 简洁;简炼 SYN conciseness The report is a masterpiece of brevity. 那份报告是言简意赅的典范。 2 the fact of lasting a short time 短暂 the brevity of human life 人生之短暂 see also brief adj. brevity brevities brev·ity / ˈbrevəti ; NAmE ˈbrevəti /
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