Inevitably, some important chapters of the crisis get short shrift.

篇幅有限，危机中的某些重头戏不可避免地被简略带过。

One of the most inspired was superannuation, a long word meaning private pension provision that the all- abbreviating Aussies call their “super”.

最成功之一是退休金政策，一个长词指的是个退 休保障基金，澳洲惯用其简略词“超级”。

The contraction “there are” gets even less clear, it’s really just one syllable “thur”.

“there are” 的略音变得简略，它实际上只剩下一个音节“thur”。

Not knowing how to boil an egg is considered shorthand for someone who can't cook.

不知道如何煮鸡蛋被认为是不会做饭的的简略表达方式。

He gave me a brief outline of what had happened.

他简略地向我叙述了事情发生的经过。

After hundreds of pages describing the problem, Mr Clapp is light on prescriptions.

在用了数百页的篇幅描述问题之后，克拉普对解决方的阐述却显得简略。

To understand why this southern city is so different from any other city of the United States, and perhaps also how it evolved the musical form of Dixieland jazz, it is necessary to give a brief description of its history.

我们有必要简略座南部城市的历史，裨能了解该市与其它美国城市的不同，及其南方爵士乐风的演进史。

I wanted to glance in this direction without really going there.

我只想简略介绍一下而不想深究。

But these charts are basic and inaccurate.

但些星图简略粗糙 也不准确。

We just read a little bit about Michael Faraday.

我们刚刚简略地了解了迈克尔·法拉第。

He considered that briefly, and when he spoke, he sounded pleased.

他简略地想了想，然后当他话的时候，他听起来很愉悦。

And finally, even though liars keep descriptions simple, they tend to use longer and more convoluted sentence structure, inserting unnecessary words and irrelevant but factual sounding details in order to pad the lie.

最后 虽然谎者试图简略描绘，但他们常用长且复杂的句式，加入不必要的词语，不相关但冠冕堂皇的细节来补充谎言。

Something I'm noticing is that Siri is a little bit more curt and gives you like much shorter answers where Google will actually give you all the detail.

我注意到的一点是，Siri 的回答有点简略，回答更短，而谷歌就会给你很多细节。

First of all, I’d like to briefly touch on the background of the new x420 line; how the whole concept has come about and how the new product fits into our existing brand line.

首先，我先简略谈一下新的X420线的背景，整个概念是怎么来的以及新产品如何适应现有的生产线。

Eventually, the researchers did convince the editors of some journals to allow it, but the group's title was abbreviated, as if it was a first and last name, in online indexing software: " B. Rangers" .

最终，研究员的确服了几家刊物的编辑，但团体的头衔被简略得像一个姓和一个名——在网络检索软件上显示为“B.Rangers”。

You know, I think some of our, our listeners might not know what the process of DNA extraction looked like in 2000 and what it looks like now, so I would love to get a little bit of an overview.

我想我们的听众中，有些可能不知道 在 2000 年取过的 DNA 提程是什么样的，现在又是什么样的，所以我希望能得到简略叙述。

But a few minutes afterward, he forgot his manners entirely, and stared at Amy putting on her bonnet, for she had been introduced simply as 'my sister', and no one had called her by her new name since he came.

但刚过了几分钟，他就完全忘了礼仪，紧盯着艾米看她戴上帽子，因为在之前她被简略地介绍为“我的妹妹”，而且他到来之后还没有以她的新身份来称呼过她。

In 1912, a rough version of the map appeared in a newspaper article that cautiously described some of the mysteries behind taste and smell research.

1912 年，一张简略版的味觉图出现在了报纸上，报道小心翼翼地描述了味觉和嗅觉研究背后的一些奥秘。

The short form " it's" is what we call a contraction. " It's" can be the short form of the words " it is" or " it has."

“it’s”样的简略形式就是我们所的缩写形式。“It’s”可以是“It is”或“It has”的简略形式。

No man has yet formulated a briefer or less complex " system" than the one set forth herein; it has been stripped of all non-essentials.

在个世界上，再也找不出比本书更简略，或者更简洁的“思维体系”了。书中所述真可谓是字字珠玑。