compendious 的定义
- 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.
compendious 近义词
abridged
更多compendious例句
- 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.