terse
adjective /tɜːs/
/tɜːrs/
- 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。 - Although he was terse, he didn’t rage at me.
虽然他很简洁，但他没有对我发火。
Collocations DictionaryTerse is used with these nouns:- nod
- reply
词源early 17th cent.: from Latin tersus ‘wiped, polished’, from the verb tergere. The original sense was ‘polished, trim, spruce’, (relating to language) ‘polished, polite’, hence ‘concise and to the point’ (late 18th cent.). - a terse style