- 1話很少的、簡潔（帶點冷淡、不多解釋的味道，不只是「短」）
Using very few words. A laconic person answers 'Fine.' when you ask about their whole weekend. But the word carries more than 'short' — it suggests a certain calm or dryness, even a bit of style. Ask a laconic man if the building is on fire and he says 'Looks like it.' That is why it is often used with admiration, or at least amusement, where 'quiet' would be flat and 'rude' would be too harsh. You can describe a person (a laconic farmer), their manner (a laconic style), or the words themselves (a laconic reply, a laconic note). It is a literary word — common in novels and journalism, rarer in conversation. Because it hints at self-control, it is used more often of men in fiction, though nothing in the word requires that.
組成From Laconia, the region of ancient Greece the Spartans came from. The Spartans were famous for saying as little as possible. The story goes that an enemy sent them a threat — 'If we enter your land, we will destroy you' — and the Spartans wrote back one word: 'If.' That is the word in a nutshell.
同家族的字
- laconicallythe adverb form of the same word
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Laconicadj
- 1
Of or relating to ancient Laconia in Greece.
laconicadj/ləˈkɒnɪk/
- 1
Of speech or writing, communicative through the use of as few words as possible.
- Near-synonym: brief
- 2
Of a speaker or writer, communicating through the use of as few words as possible.
- Near-synonyms: taciturn, untalkative, terse, quiet, spartan
- I grow laconick even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.
- 3
Laid-back; casual; not intense.
- A key player up the other end of the ground is Harris Andrews, who sometimes gets unfairly criticised for his laconic playing style. He desperately cares for this team.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。