Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding".

早在2008年哈罗德·品特因癌症去世之前，他就知道了自己赢得了“高深莫测、沉默寡言、简洁、多刺、暴躁以及令人生畏”的名声。

The President issued a terse statement denying the charges.

总统发表了一份简短的声明，否认那些指控。

An example of her modus operandi was provided during a terse exchange with the defendant.

与被告的简短交流体现了她独特的办事方式。

He issued a terse statement, saying he is discussing his future with colleagues before announcing his decision on Monday.

他发表了简短生硬的声明，说他正和同事商讨自己的未来，并说将于星期一宣布他的决定。

See how terse that code is?

看看这段代码有多么简洁？

The language is terse and precise.

书中语言简洁而准确。

YAML is terse, but still readable.

YAML很简洁，但仍然具有可读性。

His already terse prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic.

他那本已十分简练的行文甚至变得更紧凑、更电文式了。

The above code is quite terse, so I'll go over what it does line by line.

上面的代码相当简洁，所以我逐行来说明它的功能。

The description of events in the messages is often rather short and terse.

在信息里面，对事件的描述通常来说是十分短和简介的。

Being terse is good for a reference document, but deadly in learningcontent.

参考文件最好要简洁扼要，但学习内容太简洁的话，却是致命的。

Most post flyers with photos and terse stories of their children's disappearance.

大多数寻人启事上都会有照片以及简要地讲述孩子的失踪前后。

A week before I was supposed to leave, our conversations become inexplicably terse.

我要出发的前一周，我们的对话变得费解的简洁。

They communicate in terse sentences that might have been lifted from a philosophy primer.

他们用那些原本在哲学初级读本抄下来的简洁的句子互相交流。

Because Groovy is a dynamic language, it can be substantially more terse and readable.

因为Groovy是一门动态语言，它可以大幅度提高简洁性和可读性。

You can see in Listing 10 what the original Listing 1 looks like through the Terse back end.

在清单10中，可以看到原来的清单1经过Terse后端处理后的样子。

Its initial explanation was terse and vague: equipment failure due to a lightning strike.

最初的报告简单且模棱两可：闪电引发的设备故障。

Classic Groovy was quite flexible (and indeed terse) when it came to variable declarations.

经典的Groovy在变量声明上相当灵活(而且实际上很简洁)。

Occasionally the author adds a terse footnote to a redaction he feels especially sore about.

偶尔作者给让其感到特别恼火的修订添加了简明的注脚。

His instructions are terse: "you guys on the left are controlling roll; you on the right, pitch."

他简洁地说明用法：“左边的人控制翻滚，右边的人控制高度。”

Some may use descriptive and verbose conventions, while others may use terse and technical formats.

有些可能采用详尽冗长的描述习惯，而其他可能采用简洁且技术性的格式风格。

The text prompt is no longer as terse and now uses the curses library to display your choices.

这个文本提示现在不再简略，使用 curses 库来显示您的选项。

The company said in a terse news release that it was disappointed and was reviewing its options.

必和必拓在一次简短的新闻发布会上表示，公司对结果失望，而且仍在修改提案。

Press the Tab key to see a list of images to boot and the original terse LILO text prompt boot:.

按 Tab 键查看要引导的映像列表和原始简略 LILO 文本提示 boot:。

Since it's quite terse and provide powerful features for succinctness, it should be very maintainable.

既然它很简洁，同时又为这种简洁性提供了强大的特性，那么它应该很容易维护。

Experience has shown that a more verbose topic space is preferable to a terse, less descriptive space.

经验表明，详细描述的主题空间要比简单扼要的空间更可取。

This program is not as terse as the Perl version and does not have the special variables and assumptions.

此程序不像Perl版本那样简洁，且没有特殊变量和假设。

The list of matching nodes is normally rather terse, including just the node name and the node's internal handle.

匹配节点的列表通常是相当简洁的，只包括节点名和节点的内部句柄。

When you use Doxygen, code comments are much more terse, without the embedded HTML, as demonstrated in Listing 5.

如果使用Doxygen，代码注释就会更简洁，省去了嵌入的HTML标记，如清单5所示。