in a nutshell 的定义
- Concisely, in a few words, as in Here's our proposal—in a nutshell, we want to sell the business to you. This hyperbolic expression alludes to the Roman writer Pliny's description of Homer's Iliad being copied in so tiny a hand that it could fit in a nutshell. For a time it referred to anything compressed, but from the 1500s on it referred mainly to written or spoken words.
in a nutshell 近义词
等同于 pointed
等同于 short
in a nutshell 的近义词 41 个
- abbreviated
- brief
- precise
- short-lived
- shortened
- terse
- abbreviate
- bare
- compressed
- condensed
- curtailed
- decreased
- diminished
- fleeting
- lessened
- little
- pointed
- summarized
- summary
- aphoristic
- boiled down
- breviloquent
- compendiary
- compendious
- concise
- curtate
- cut short
- cut to the bone
- decurtate
- epigrammatic
- laconic
- momentary
- not protracted
- pithy
- sententious
- short and sweet
- short-term
- succinct
- undersized
- unprolonged
- unsustained
in a nutshell 的反义词 16 个
等同于 succinct
in a nutshell 的近义词 17 个
- blunt
- concise
- curt
- pithy
- terse
- boiled down
- breviloquent
- brusque
- compact
- compendiary
- compendious
- condensed
- cut to the bone
- in few words
- laconic
- short
- summary
in a nutshell 的反义词 4 个
等同于 summary
等同于 terse
等同于 short and sweet
等同于 compact
等同于 concise
等同于 briefly
更多in a nutshell例句
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
- Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
- Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
- Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”
- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
- All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
- Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
- The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.