short strokes

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The final steps of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious.

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  2. 2.

    Bare essentials.

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    She can evoke an entire scene in short strokes, as in this from "The Wamsutter Wolf": "This trailer was in ruins, broken-backed because its west end had slipped off the cinder-block supports. All the windows had been shot out."

词源

Possibly an allusion to painting, in which a painter typically finishes a work with short, careful, finishing strokes of the paint brush, or to golf, in which a player concludes each hole by making short strokes with a putter.

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