terser

英 [ˈtɜːsə]

美 [ˈtɜrsər]

adj.  简要的; 简短生硬的
terse的比较级

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （声明、评论）简短的,短促的,无礼的
  Atersestatement or comment is brief and unfriendly.
  1. He issued a terse statement, saying he is discussing his future with colleagues before announcing his decision on Monday...
     他发表了简短声明，称他正在和同事讨论他的未来，并将于星期一宣布他的决定。
  2. His tone was terse as he asked the question.
     他提问时语气生硬。

双语例句

• This can be marginally more efficient than using a temporary variable and, by making the code terser, makes it either easier to read or more cryptic, depending on your point of view.
  这样比使用临时变量效率更高，代码也变得更加简要，至于这样的代码是易读还是含混，就取决于您的观点了。
• Of course, you could use an ordinary if-else statement ( described later), but the ternary operator is much terser.
  当然，也可以换用普通的if-else语句（在后面介绍），但三元运算符更加简洁。
• Component based development could make the procedure structure cleaner and the design terser and normative. It obeys the standard of the MVC mode design and it is easy to be maintained and extended.
  采用组件式的开发方式，程序逻辑结构清晰，设计规范，简洁，符合MVC设计模式的规范要求，并且易于扩展和维护。
• Those new artistic pursuits include: poetic length getting shorter and terser, poetic language getting natural ( compared with the stiff and strange language), poetic images getting united and completed, poetic syllables getting fluent and smooth.
  这些新的艺术追求包括：篇幅日益短小精悍，语言渐趋自然（与生新对），意象逐渐统一完善，音节逐渐流畅。