curt

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kɜːt/    美 /kɝt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cut, cut short, shorten. obsolete,rare
    — Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.
形容词 adj.
  1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
    — Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […]
  2. Short or concise.

词形变化

curter comparative curtest superlative curts present,singular,third-person curting participle,present curted participle,past curted past

词源

词源 1
From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.
词源 2
From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.
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