记忆方法
将“brief”与“br”的快速阅读联想记忆。想象在阅读（read）时需要简短（brief）的内容，这样就可以在阅读过程中快速掌握信息，从而记住单词“brief”的意思是简短、简洁。
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词族 · brief
中文词源
brief 简短的, 公文汇报
来自词根brev, 短。引申义汇报，介绍情况。
英语词源
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brief: [14] Brief comes via Old French bref from Latin brevis ‘short’, which is probably related to Greek brakhús ‘short’, from which English gets the combining form brachy-, as in brachycephalic. Latin produced the nominal derivative breve ‘letter’, later ‘summary’, which came into English in the 14th century in the sense ‘letter of authority’ (German has brief simply meaning ‘letter’).
The notion of an ‘abbreviation’ or ‘summary’ followed in the next century, and the modern legal sense ‘summary of the facts of a case’ developed in the 17th century. This formed the basis of the verbal sense ‘inform and instruct’, which is 19th-century. Briefs ‘underpants’ are 20th-century. The musical use of the noun breve began in the 15th century when, logically enough, it meant ‘short note’.
Modern usage, in which it denotes the longest note, comes from Italian breve. Other derivatives of brief include brevity [16], introduced into English via Anglo-Norman brevete; abbreviate [15], from late Latin abbreviāre (which is also the source, via Old French abregier, of abridge [14]); and breviary ‘book of church services’ [16], from Latin breviārium.
=> abbreviate, abridge, brevity - brief (adj.)
- late 13c., from Latin brevis (adj.) "short, low, little, shallow," from PIE *mregh-wi-, from root *mregh-u- "short" (cognates: Greek brakhys "short," Old Church Slavonic bruzeja "shallow places, shoals," Gothic gamaurgjan "to shorten").
- brief (n.)
- from Latin breve (genitive brevis), noun derivative of adjective brevis (see brief (adj.)) which came to mean "letter, summary," specifically a letter of the pope (less ample and solemn than a bull), and thus came to mean "letter of authority," which yielded the modern, legal sense of "summary of the facts of a case" (1630s).
- brief (v.)
- "to give instructions or information to," 1866; originally "to instruct by a brief" (1862), from brief (n.). Related: Briefed; briefing.
权威例句
- 1. A guide gives a brief talk on the history of the site.
- 导游简要地介绍了那个遗址的历史。
- 2. Now please be brief — my time is valuable.
- 请长话短说——我的时间宝贵。
- 3. This is a brief stop to take on passengers and water.
- 这是一次短暂停靠，上上客，加加水。
- 4. For a few brief minutes we forgot the anxiety and anguish.
- 短短几分钟我们就忘记了焦虑与苦恼。
- 5. She claims she had a brief fling with him 30 years ago.
- 她声称在30年前曾和他有过一段短暂的风流韵事。
词语辨析
【concise, succinct, curt, brief】
这组词都有“简短的”的意思，其区别是：
concise: a. (文字等的)简要、精练，常含有保留主要部分的意思。
• His letter was concise, omitting everything not pertinent to the job. 他的信写得简明扼要，省略掉了所有与该项工作无关的部分。
succinct: a.简明的，简洁的，简练的，尤指用词简练，除含有concise的意思外，还有经过压缩的或简化的意思。
• succinct summary of the argument 论点的概要
curt: a.三言两语的，简短的，常含有"草率"的意思。
• He asked his boss a question, but got a curt reply , "I have no time for you now!" 他问老板一个问题，但是老板草率的说："我没时间搭理你。"
brief: a.简明扼要的，简短的，指时间短暂，办事利索，态度明了等；有时含有"虽短但却不失全面"的意味。
• The manager made a brief statement to open the meeting. 经理致了简短的开幕词。
【compact, concise, brief】
这组词都有“简短的、简洁的”的意思，其区别是：
compact: 指为了方便把某物压缩到最小程度，也指紧凑、简洁的文体。
concise: 书面用词，可与brief换用，指语言文学言简意赅，无多余的话。
brief: 指语言文学简明扼要，短小精悍，也用于指时间意义很强的短暂的过程。
这组词都有“简短的”的意思，其区别是：
concise: a. (文字等的)简要、精练，常含有保留主要部分的意思。
• His letter was concise, omitting everything not pertinent to the job. 他的信写得简明扼要，省略掉了所有与该项工作无关的部分。
succinct: a.简明的，简洁的，简练的，尤指用词简练，除含有concise的意思外，还有经过压缩的或简化的意思。
• succinct summary of the argument 论点的概要
curt: a.三言两语的，简短的，常含有"草率"的意思。
• He asked his boss a question, but got a curt reply , "I have no time for you now!" 他问老板一个问题，但是老板草率的说："我没时间搭理你。"
brief: a.简明扼要的，简短的，指时间短暂，办事利索，态度明了等；有时含有"虽短但却不失全面"的意味。
• The manager made a brief statement to open the meeting. 经理致了简短的开幕词。
【compact, concise, brief】
这组词都有“简短的、简洁的”的意思，其区别是：
compact: 指为了方便把某物压缩到最小程度，也指紧凑、简洁的文体。
concise: 书面用词，可与brief换用，指语言文学言简意赅，无多余的话。
brief: 指语言文学简明扼要，短小精悍，也用于指时间意义很强的短暂的过程。