說：只給重點的簡述
把畫圖的方式搬到說話上：只描出輪廓，細節先不填。所以 sketch 出來的說明是給人抓方向的，不是完整版本。
sketch (outline verbally) · verb · B2
To describe something in a short, rough way, giving only the main points.
概述；簡述
核心畫面
Picture a few quick pencil lines that already show what the thing is — no , no detail, done in a minute. A sketch gives the shape and leaves the rest out, and English uses that same idea for a short spoken outline and for a short comic scene.
可以想成：幾筆快速的鉛筆線，已經看得出畫的是什麼——沒有陰影、沒有細節，一分鐘就完成。sketch 給的是輪廓，其餘…更多收起
可以想成：幾筆快速的鉛筆線，已經看得出畫的是什麼——沒有陰影、沒有細節，一分鐘就完成。sketch 給的是輪廓，其餘留白；英文把同樣的想法用在口頭的簡述上，也用在一小段短劇上。From the picture
演：一小段搞笑短劇
表演也可以只是一小塊：不鋪陳、不收尾，抓住一個好笑的情境就演完。這種短到像速寫的段子，英文就叫 sketch。
sketch (comedy scene) · noun · B1
a short funny scene in a show on television or in a theatre.
幽默短劇；小品
Also in this word
sketch (quick drawing) · noun · A2
a simple drawing that you make quickly, without many details.
素描；草圖
sketch (draw quickly) · verb · A2
to draw something quickly and simply, without many details.
畫素描；畫草圖
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
sketchverb/ˈskɛt͡ʃ/
- 1
To make a brief, basic drawing.
- I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil.
- 2
To describe briefly and with very few details.
- He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.
sketchnoun/ˈskɛt͡ʃ/
- 1
A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
- Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
- 2
A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- 3
A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
- I have to write a character sketch for a novel study.
- 4
A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.
- 5
A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.
- 6
informalAn amusing person.
- 7
slangA lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- to keep sketch
- 8
A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
- A very capable journalist, he wrote the Parliamentary sketch for the Pall Mall and the Westminster Gazette for several years.
- The Daily Telegraph sketch concentrated on the Bishop's attack and included rebutting remarks from Lord Longford, describing the attack as monumentally unfair because Mr. Cook could not reply.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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category-theorycomputingengineeringA formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
sketchadj/ˈskɛt͡ʃ/
- 1
informalSketchy, shady, questionable.
- You call at 9 am on a Saturday, lucky I'm even awake. [...] Then expect me to pick you up at a gas station near a loony bin, that's sketch. I don't even want to ask what you're doing.
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informalSketchy, shady, questionable.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。