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compendious

/kuhm-pen-dee-uhs/US // kəmˈpɛn di əs //UK // (kəmˈpɛndɪəs) //

简明扼要,简明扼要的,简明扼要的说,简明扼要地

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.

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Examples

  • David Frum on Allen Guelzo's compendious synthesis of new thinking about slavery and its aftermath.

  • A very complete and compendious work, apparently accurate and in beautiful style.

  • To other persons they may serve as a compendious view of the most important discoveries relating to the subject.

  • It is, perhaps, too compendious; and I dislike its being given in the form of letters.

  • He sat down by his lamp and tried to read—to read a little compendious life of a great English statesman, out of a “series.”

  • But there is another way, more compendious still, of summing up his political chronicle.