词源

源自拉丁語 (“干净的，清洁的，擦干净了的；整洁的”)，、 (“清洁；擦拭”)的过去分词^[1]，源自原始印歐語 (“擦；转”)。

发音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/tɜːs/
• (加拿大，美國) 國際音標^(幫助)：/tɝːs/

• （澳洲）音频：

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• 韻部：-ɜː(ɹ)s

形容词

(比較級，最高級)

1. (引申义) 简练的，简洁的，开门见山的

   近義詞： 、；亦參見Thesaurus:concise

   反義詞： 、、；亦參見Thesaurus:verbose

   • 1777, [George Riley], The Asses Ears, a Fable. Addressed to the Author of The Goat's Beard [], London: Printed for G. Riley, […], →OCLC; quoted in “Art. VIII. Asses Ears: A Fable. Addressed to the Author of The Goat’s Beard. 4to. 6d. Riley. 1777. [book review]”, 出自 , 卷 LVI, London: Printed for ; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], March 1777, →OCLC，頁號 194:

     In eight terse lines has told / (So frugal were the Bards of old) / A Tale of Goats; and clos'd with grace / Plan, Moral, all, in that ſhort space.

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   • 1832 September, ], “。No. LXII.”, 出自 , 卷 XXXII, 期 CXCVIII, Edinburgh: ; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC，頁號 409:

     Your last series contains some of the neatest, tersest, and most unpretendingly original criticism, I have lately met with.

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   • 1902, G. W. Parker, “Things and Other Things: Letters to Living Authors—IX. Sir ”, 出自 Donald Macleod 編, , London: Isbister and Company Limited […], →OCLC，頁號 817，列號 1:

     The book contains some happily done portrait touches of , [...] and this and other aphoristical sentences scattered throughout this volume, [...] form as terse and trenchant a character-sketch of the Emperor as may be found almost anywhere.

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   • 1946, , The Quest of the Golden Condor, New York, N.Y.: , →OCLC，頁號 94:

     Many protested that they had nothing to do with the fighting. At a word from the General the soldiers ripped off the men's shirts and examined the front of their shoulders. If they found bruises that might have been made from the butt of a gun when it had been fired—the terse order was, "Shoot him!" And many of the young men of Trujillo had disappeared.

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   • 1977, , “The Literature of Exhaustion”, 出自 編, The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction, Manchester: by arrangement with ; Totowa, N.J.: , →ISBN，頁號 73:

     [...] has become virtually mute, musewise, having progressed from marvellously constructed English sentences through terser and terser French ones to the unsyntactical, unpunctuated prose of Comment C'est and 'ultimately' to wordless mimes.

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   • 2012 6月 4, Lewis Smith, “Queen’s English Society says enuf is enough, innit?: Society formed 40 years ago to protect language against poor spelling and grammar closes because too few people care”, 出自 ‎, London，於10 March 2016歸檔自原頁面:

     Having attempted to identify a role for the society and its magazine, Quest, "for the next 40 years", the society chairman, Rhea Williams, decided it was time to close. She announced the group's demise in a terse message to members following the annual meeting, which just 22 people attended.

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2. (引申义) 简短而唐突无礼的

   近義詞： 、、(方言) 、

   • 2008, Julia James, The Italian's Rags-to-riches Wife (Bedded by … Blackmail; Harlequin Presents; 2716), Toronto, Ont., New York, N.Y.: , →ISBN，頁號 107:

     'Laura!' The voice halting her was terse. Brusque. She turned. [...] 'Before I go,' he said, and his voice was terse, tighter than ever. 'I want to ensure you understand something.'

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   • 2018, Zara Cox, Close to The Edge (Mills & Boon Dare), London: , →ISBN:

     My voice was terser than I intended, but what the hell. The night was turning out to be interesting in some ways and extremely frustrating in others.

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3. (棄用) 清洁的，光滑的；整洁的 （自17世纪初）
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参考资料

延伸阅读

• 在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en

异序词

• , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

词源

的诙谐变体，可能受到了的影响。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈterseˣ/, [ˈt̪e̞rs̠e̞(ʔ)]
• 韻部：-erse
• 斷字^(幫助)：ter‧se

叹词

(幽默)

1. 你好

异序词

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/tɛʁs/
• 同音词：,

动词

1. 的屈折变化形式：
   1. 第一人稱/第三人稱單數現在時直陳式/虛擬式
   2. 第二人稱單數命令式

异序词

• , , , , , ,

词源 1

词源 2

异序词

• ,

分词

1. 的呼格陽性單數

形容词

 f 複

1. 的陰性複數