adj. 简洁的，精练的，扼要的 (terse的变形)

Terse \Terse\, a. [Compar. {Terser}; superl. {Tersest}.] [L.
tersus, p. p. of tergere to rub or wipe off.]
1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth;
polished. [Obs.]

Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have
not this power attractive. --Sir T.
Browne.

2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. [R. & Obs.]
``Your polite and terse gallants.'' --Massinger.

3. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to
smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.

Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence.
--Macaulay.

A poet, too, was there, whose verse
Was tender, musical, and terse. --Longfellow.

Syn: Neat; concise; compact.

Usage: {Terse}, {Concise}. Terse was defined by Johnson
``cleanly written'', i. e., free from blemishes, neat
or smooth. Its present sense is ``free from
excrescences,'' and hence, compact, with smoothness,
grace, or elegance, as in the following lones of
Whitehead:

``In eight terse lines has Ph[ae]drus told
(So frugal were the bards of old)
A tale of goats; and closed with grace,
Plan, moral, all, in that short space.''
※ It differs from concise in not
implying, perhaps, quite as much condensation, but
chiefly in the additional idea of ``grace or
elegance.''
※ -- {Terse"ly}, adv. -- {Terse"ness}, n.