laconic

英 [ləˈkɒnɪk]

美 [ləˈkɑːnɪk]

adj.  简洁的; 简明扼要的; 凝练的

GRE

BNC.20481 / COCA.23248

牛津词典

adj.

• 简洁的；简明扼要的；凝练的
  using only a few words to say sth

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 寡言的；言简意赅的
  If you describe someone aslaconic, you mean that they use very few words to say something, so that they seem casual or unfriendly.
  1. Usually so laconic in the office, Dr. Lahey seemed less guarded, more relaxed...
     平常在办公室里寡言少语的莱希医生似乎少了些拘谨，多了几分轻松。
  2. 'At least we weren't kidnapped.' — 'I'm glad of that,' was the laconic response.
     “至少咱们没被绑架。”——“对此我很庆幸，”答复就是这么简短的一句话。

英英释义

adj

• brief and to the point
  1. a crisp retort
  2. a response so curt as to be almost rude
  3. the laconic repl
  4. short and terse and easy to understand
  Synonym:crispcurtterse

双语例句

• 'At least we weren't kidnapped.' — 'I'm glad of that,' was the laconic response.
  “至少咱们没被绑架。”——“对此我很庆幸，”答复就是这么简短的一句话。
• This design has the advantage of having a laconic structure and economizing the hardware resource.
  本设计的优点在于系统的结构简洁，比较节约硬件资源。
• The story displays the somewhat laconic wit of these people.
  故事显示出这些人身上的几分达练与机智。
• This is paper also introduces the implementation tips with program languages the presented codes are very laconic and easy to realize.
  文中还介绍了编程实现的方法和技巧，关键算法的程序代码非常简洁，易于实现。
• The criterion for a fruit of education scientific research is scientific and creationary and applied and logic and laconic and smooth.
  教育科研成果定量评估的标准主要是：科学性、新性、用性、辑性及语言的简捷性和流畅性。
• After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall.
  写完一篇书简体短文后，她就把书写用具丢在蜡画颜料里，任其暴露在硫酸亚铁、绿矾和五倍子中去腐蚀。
• The expression composed of simple operator is often more laconic and easier to understand than the function.
  由简单的运算符构成的表达式常常比函数调用更简洁、易懂。
• He should have known she would take the first train possible after receiving his laconic message that Gerald was dead.
  他应该知道：收到他那封简短的信，得知父亲杰拉尔德去世的消息，她肯定会乘最早的一班火车赶来的。
• What if Andy Warhol, famously laconic art luminary, had decided just once, at the right, liberating yet confidential moment, to give an articulate, self-revealing interview*?
  如果著名的艺术大师、惜字如金的安迪•沃霍尔（ANDYWARHOL）也曾经有那么一次，在一个恰当、释放但秘密的时刻，决定进行一次表述清晰、真情流露的采访，又会如何？
• The idealisation of silence remained strong in American culture into the 20th century: think of the laconic heroes of Western films, or of Hemingway's novels.
  在美国文化进入20世纪后，其中的理想化的沉默仍然很强烈：想想西部片里头（讲起话来）言简意赅的英雄或者海明威的小说。