And they found that papers with terser titles top the citation count.

他们发现引用率靠前的论文标题都是简明扼要。

There's no exposition, only terse, often indecipherable bursts of military jargon.

没有背景介绍，只有简短、常常晦涩难懂的军事术语迸发而出。

He whittled and listened, gave monosyllabic replies, and, when it was asked, terse advice.

他一边削，一边听，嘴里嗯、嗯地应，哈尔发问，他便简短地给几句忠告。

In a terse resignation letter, Kevin Sweeney said that after two years at the Pentagon, it was the right time to return to the private sector.

在一封简短的辞职信中，凯文·斯韦尼表示在五角大楼任职两年后，现在是向私营企业了。

I thought you were rather terse with her.

我觉得你对她直接了些。

In a terse statement, the spokesman for the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the damages claim was not receivable under a convention that grants the United Nations immunity for its actions.

联合国秘书长潘基文发表简短声明，称联合国拥有豁免权，因此不接受索赔要求。

The book has little to say about the political mobilisation needed for so dramatic a reform, an omission which echoes its strikingly terse explanation for why inequality exploded in the first place.

书中几乎没提及开展如此激进的变革所需的政治动员。同样，该书对不平等现象爆发的起因甚微。

They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.

他们规定了一套制度，其简洁详尽超过了查士丁尼法典和中国社会例行的莫管他人闲事的章程。

It was short and terse, the warning, as I now read it to my companion: 'The game is up. Hudson has told all. Fly for your life.'

词句简短扼要，是告警信，我当即把它读给我的朋友听：'一切都完了。赫德森已全部检举。你赶快逃命吧！'

The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day.

美国商会(U.S. Chamber of Commerce)和劳联-产联(AFL-CIO)在选举日发表了一份简短而不引人注意的联合声明，正式敲定了这项协议。

At half past, he heard Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia conversing in terse mutters in the living room.

五点半的，他听见弗农姨父和佩妮姨妈在客厅里没好气地嘟囔。

The first official reports of an accident off Russia's Arctic coast last Thursday were contradictory and terse.

这起事故于上周四发生在俄罗斯北极海岸附近，首份事故官方报告既矛盾又简短。

Parents worry that children who bark instructions at virtual assistants such as Amazon's Alexa are becoming terse.

父母担心孩子对亚马逊的Alexa等虚拟助手发号施令会让他们说话变得更简短生硬。

In the summer of 1848, a terse item appeared in many newspapers across Normandy.

1848 年夏天， 一篇简短的文章出现在诺曼底的许多报纸上。

She says that things are just getting shorter and shorter, terser and terser.

她说事情变得越来越短，越来越简洁。

He is my uncle, came the terse reply.

他是我叔叔，回答简短。

I have a friend whose messages Rita is so terse.

我有个朋友，丽塔回消息总是很简短。

She says, well, it's quite terse, you know.

她说，嗯，这相当简洁，你知道的。

So sometimes I feel like, oh, do I sound, is this gonna sound angry or terse or dismissive if I just have it the way it is?

有我觉得，哦，我这么说会不会听起来很生气、生硬或者不屑一顾？如果就这样保持原样的话。

And perhaps that is a future in which people will have a more terse Language, I'm just not sure how much more terse it can get.

或许那是一个未来， 人们将拥有更为简洁的语言，我只是不确定它还能简洁到何种程度。