I thought you were rather terse with her.

我觉得你对她直接了些。

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

他一边削，一边听，嘴里嗯、嗯地应着，哈尔发问时，他便简短地给几句忠告。

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

这起事故于上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。

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

五点半的时候，他听见弗农姨父和佩妮姨妈在客厅里没好气地嘟囔着。

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。

The testy president declared a terse testimony to encourage the people to stand the test.

暴躁的总统发表了一项简洁的声明来鼓励们经受考验。

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)在举日发表了一份简短而注意的联合声明，正式敲定了这项协议。

Jacot gave a few terse orders to the sergeant who saluted, turned upon his heel and returned to the men.

Jacot 向中士下了几个简短的命令， 中士敬了个礼， 然后转身回到士兵身边。

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，现在是时候转向私营企业了。

And is it not on record that Henley once dashed across a manuscript the terse pronouncement, " I take no interest in childless women" ?

亨利曾经在手稿上匆匆写下一句简短的声明， “我对没有孩子的女感兴趣” ，这难道是记录在案吗？

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闲事的章程。

9 Well, these new technologies require you to be terse, because you can only send a message, typically, that is, say 140 characters or letters long.

9 好吧，这些新技术要求你要简洁，因为你只能发送一条消息， 通常是 140 个字符或字母长。

If you are mad or upset at someone, you might be very terse with them; you may not speak to them very much, use very few words.

如果你对某生气或高兴， 你可能会对他们非常简洁；你可能会和他们说太多， 用很少的话。

Franklin played a leading role in developing journalism as a terse writing form, getting quickly to the point and dwelling on important issues instead of secondary facts.

富兰克林在把新闻发展成一种简洁的写作形式方面起到了主导作用，他很快就抓住了重点，专注于重要的问题，而是次要的事实。

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，因此接受索赔要求。

The queen's face moves through a series of expressions, settling on a terse frown as if she's found something unsightly on the bottom of one of her kitten heels.

女王的脸随着一系列的表情而变化，最后只是皱起眉头， 仿佛她在一只小高跟鞋的底部发现了一些难看的东西。

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，该书对平等现象爆发的起因也着墨甚微。

It's a tale told with the precision of a scientist and the soul of a poet, the language terse and powerful, every word carrying the weight of the world, much like Hemingway's prose.

这是一个以科学家的精准和诗的灵魂讲述的故事，语言简洁有力，每一个字都承载着世界的重量，很像海明威的散文。