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简洁的,扼要的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

terse
     adj : brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp
           retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude";
           "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy
           to understand" [syn: {crisp}, {curt}, {laconic}]

资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Terse
     
        Language for decryption of hardware logic.
     
        ["Hardware Logic Simulation by Compilation", C. Hansen, 25th
        ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf, 1988].