laconic

英 [l?'k?n?k] 美

近義詞curt terse

GRE暢通詞匯

副詞:?laconically;

laconic 簡練的

來自希臘語Lakon,地名，斯巴達(dá)屬地，以說話簡練著稱。參照電影《三百勇士》。

laconic: laconic: [16] The Greek term for an inhabitant of the ancient region of Laconia, in the southern Peloponnese, and of its capital Sparta, was Lákōn. The Spartans were renowned for not using two words where one would do (there is a story that when Philip of Macedon threatened invasion with ‘If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta to the ground’, the Spartans’ only reply was ‘If’), and so English used the adjective laconic (from Greek Lakōnikós) for ‘sparing of speech’.
laconic (adj.): "concise, abrupt," 1580s, probably via Latin Laconicus, from Greek Lakonikos, from Lakon "person from Lakonia," the district around Sparta in southern Greece in ancient times, whose inhabitants were famously proud of their brevity of speech. When Philip of Macedon threatened them with, "If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta to the ground," the Spartans' reply was, "If." An earlier form was laconical (1570s). Related: Laconically.

2. Usually so laconic in the office, Dr. Lahey seemed less guarded, more relaxed.: 平常在辦公室里寡言少語的萊希醫(yī)生似乎少了些拘謹(jǐn)，多了幾分輕松。

3. "At least we weren't kidnapped." — "I'm glad of that," was the laconic response.: “至少咱們沒被綁架。”——“對(duì)此我很慶幸，”答復(fù)就是這么簡短的一句話。

4. A slight frown and a laconic'Yes,'were the answer.: 回答是淡淡的皺眉和一聲簡短的 “ 是的 ”.