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外刊例句
- That pithy motto was coined by Leo Durocher, a baseball manager noted for exulting at injuring his opponents and for cheating his players at cards.
这句简练的格言出自利奥·迪罗谢，这位棒球队经理以伤害对手和在牌局上对自己的球员出千为乐，由此出名。
——《经济学人》 - A pithy turn of phrase or a striking metaphor can all too easily turn into a headline, causing big market moves and a public backlash.
精辟的措辞或引人注目的隐喻都很容易成为头条新闻，引起市场大幅波动和公众强烈反对。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[adjective] (of language or style) concise and forcefully expressive
[形容词] （指语言或风格）简洁且表达有力的
深入解读
Pithy 是一个由名词 pith （木髓、树心；柑橘类水果的衬皮；核心）+形容词后缀 -y 衍生而来的单词，字面意思即指“多髓的”以及“柑橘类水果衬皮厚的”，比如：
- 一个衬皮厚的橙子
a pithy orange
从“多髓的”这个概念出发，现在更为常见的是用 pithy 引申形容言语或写作“简洁有力的、简洁扼要的、简洁精炼的、言简意赅的”，常意味着不仅简明扼要，而且富有实质和意义，因而特别具有说服力或效力，比如：
- 精炼的对白
pithy dialogue - 言简意赅的评论
a pithy remark
名著用例
They could always talk; and their discourse, witty, pithy, original, had such charms for me, that I preferred listening to, and sharing in it, to doing anything else.
她们总能谈个不休，她们的交谈机智、精辟、富有独创，对我的吸引力很大。我喜欢倾听，喜欢参与，甚过干一切别的事情。
出自英国女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特（Charlotte Brontë）创作的具有自传色彩的长篇小说《简·爱》（Jane Eyre）。
同近义词
- laconic: (of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words
- succinct: (especially of something written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed
- concise: giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive
