橘子朗文词典

sententious

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [senˈten.ʃəs]
  • 美式音标 [sɛnˈtɛnʃəs]
  • 国际音标 [sen'tenʃəs]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj. 简洁精炼的；警句的，富于格言的

词根记忆

  • sentence(句子) + tious→一句话说完→简要的

同根派生

  • adv性质的同根词
    sententiously：简洁地。

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • That message, often delivered in sententious, near messianic tones, had little appeal.
    这些信息通常以警世名言，接近救世主的语气发出，却鲜有吸引力。
  • Most of them belong undoubtedly to the time after these sententious or enigmatic sayings had been written down.
    其中大部分属于无疑的时间在这些简洁的或神秘的说法已被写下来。
  • Natural language is an effective tool to express ideas. It is a sententious and effective method to express the semantic information of images.
    自然语言是表达思想的有效工具，利用自然语言表达图像的语义是一种简洁、有效的方法。

    • 权威例句

  • On the back of the package you will soon find his sententious statements about exercise.
    FORBES: Pepsi's New Challenge
  • Much of his early poetry is sententious, a poetry written with designs upon its readers which strives above all to be morally useful.
    ECONOMIST: English letters
  • With Micah Lewensohn as a sententious professor, a Moses without tablets.
    NEWYORKER: Footnote

词组短语

    短语

  • sententious ĥ 简要的
  • sententious E 简要的
  • a sententious essayist 爱用警句的杂文家

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • trying to appear wise, intelligent, and important, in a way that is annoying

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • characterized by or full of aphorisms, terse pithy sayings, or axioms