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concision

/kuhn-sizh-uhn/US // kənˈsɪʒ ən //UK // (kənˈsɪʒən) //

简明扼要,简洁,精简,简明

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : concise quality; brevity; terseness.
    • : Archaic. a cutting up or off; mutilation.

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Examples

  • Lachs writes with clarity and concision—admirable concision, considering how unwieldy university press offerings tend to be.

  • Wall Street Journal: “Begley has a great many strengths—concision, eloquence, an eagle eye—and few of the usual shortcomings.”

  • I think The Ghost Writer, with its combination of concision and daring and wild ambition, might be a perfect novel.

  • The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and concision.

  • The beautiful concision of style in this document gave Algernon a feeling of profound deference toward the law and its officers.

  • The thinking is magnificently done from this passage up to page sixteen or twenty, stated with great concision.

  • I believe that any English poet of to-day would be thankful for the concision that a Chinese poetaster attains without effort.

  • Nowhere do we see more clearly his most characteristic excellences, his delicacy, his power of antithesis, his concision.

  • Whatever may have been Morris' tendency when he wrote his own poetry, he knew when concision was a virtue in the poetry of others.