- Terse means brief, or using very few words. If your teacher tells you to make your writing in your essay style terse and to the point, he's saying use as few words as you can and be simple and clear.
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- adj. 简洁的，精练的，扼要的
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1. a terse style
简洁的风格
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2. a terse comment
简短的评论
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3. 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。
- terse (adj.) 1590s (implied in tersely), "clean-cut, burnished, neat," from French ters "clean," and directly from Latin tersus "wiped off, clean, neat," from past participle of tergere "to rub, polish, wipe." Sense of "concise or pithy in style or language" is from 1777, which led to a general sense of "neatly concise." The pejorative meaning "brusque" is a fairly recent development. Related: Terseness.
terse / tɜːs ; NAmE tɜːrs / adjective using few words and often not seeming polite or friendly 简要的；简短生硬的 ◆ a terse style 生硬冷漠的风格 ◆ 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。 ▶ terse·ly / tɜːsli ; NAmE tɜːrsli / adverb terse·ness / tɜːsnəs ; NAmE tɜːrsnəs / noun [uncountable ] terse terser tersest terse / tɜːs ; NAmE tɜːrs / terse·ly / tɜːsli ; NAmE tɜːrsli / terse·ness / tɜːsnəs ; NAmE tɜːrsnəs /
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