I thought you were rather terse with her.

我觉得你对她直接了些。

He whittled and listened, gave monosyllabic replies, and, when it was asked, terse advice.

他一边削，一边听，嘴里嗯、嗯地应着，哈尔发问时，他便简短地给几句忠告。

The first official reports of an accident off Russia's Arctic coast last Thursday were contradictory and terse.

这起事故于上周四发生在俄罗斯北极海岸附近，首份事故官方报告既矛盾又简短。

At half past, he heard Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia conversing in terse mutters in the living room.

五点半的时候，他听见弗农姨父和佩妮姨妈在客厅里没好气地嘟囔着。

In the summer of 1848, a terse item appeared in many newspapers across Normandy.

1848 年夏天， 一篇简短的文章出现在诺曼底的许多报纸上。

The testy president declared a terse testimony to encourage the people to stand the test.

暴躁的总统发表了一项简洁的声明来鼓励人们经受考验。

Working by touch, he used it to compose terse, aphoristic phrasings exactly like that oft-quoted pronouncement.

通过触摸，他用它来创作简洁的格言措辞，就像经常被引用的声明一样。

The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day.

美国商会(U.S. Chamber of Commerce)和劳联-产联(AFL-CIO)在选举日发表了一份简短而不引人注意的联合声明，正式敲定了这项协议。

Jacot gave a few terse orders to the sergeant who saluted, turned upon his heel and returned to the men.

Jacot 向中士下了几个简短的命令， 中士敬了个礼， 然后转身回到士兵身边。

In a terse resignation letter, Kevin Sweeney said that after two years at the Pentagon, it was the right time to return to the private sector.

在一封简短的辞职信中，凯文·斯韦尼表示在五角大楼任职两年后，现在是时候转向私营企业了。