in a nutshell

短语

简括地说, 一句话

发音

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释义与例句

adv.
  1. 1.

    In summary; briefly or simply.

    总而言之

    概括地说

    习语

    He had a lot to say, but his answer, in a nutshell, was no.

词源

Calque of New Latin in nuce, derived from an anecdote in Pliny the Elder, who ascribes to Cicero the claim that the whole Iliad was once written on parchment and enclosed within a nutshell (Naturalis Historia 7.21.85). Compare typologically Czech stručný, stručně (< struk).

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