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单词 brevity
释义
brevity
noun[U]
uk
/ˈbrev.ə.ti/us
/ˈbrev.ə.t̬i/
using only a few words orlastingonly ashorttime:
简短，简洁；短暂
Hisessaysaremodelsofclarityand brevity.他的散文简洁、清晰，堪称典范。
Brevity is, inalmosteverything, avirtue.几乎在任何情况下，简洁都是一种美德。
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Short in time
(Definition ofbrevityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

brevity| American Dictionary

brevity
noun[U]
us
/ˈbrev·ɪ·t̬i/
the use of few words:
Theessayswere written withadmirablebrevity.
Brevity can alsomeanashorttime:
the brevity oflife
(Definition ofbrevityfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbrevity

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Forbrevity, only the results using the multiple index model are reported.
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First, thebrevityof the trial restricts our understanding to the short-term effect of liquid fluoxetine in autism.
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For the sake ofbrevity, we have refrained from a detailed exposition.
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The book has the additional merits of clarity andbrevity.
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Besides, a street context naturally lends itself tobrevity, no matter the language.
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Given thisbrevity, the analysis is necessarily somewhat summary and short on detail.
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Given thebrevityof most office visits, the challenge of detecting and assessing depression in so many polysymptomatic patients can be an onerous task.
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Thebrevityof his exclamation may be attributed to opera-comique conventions confining elaborate self-expression to arias.
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Although the results are omitted for reasons ofbrevity, these heuristics always performed significantly worse than the local, push, and pull heuristics.
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For purposes ofbrevity, the autoregressive coefficients are not reported here.
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For brevity's sake, we will refer to it as an "electric potential" field.
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For the sake ofbrevity, the format for sigla previously described is employed here.
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Because we expect users to write these specifications rarely, we value clarity overbrevity.
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My rendition will be brief, itsbrevityhopefully excusable because by now it is very familiar.
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The length of the book is deliberately short and this produces a sense ofbrevityin some of the chapters.
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