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/ˈsʌməraɪz/
to give a short statement of only the main information about something long, such as a plan, an event, a report, or what someone has said, leaving the details out.
總結；概述
過去式 summarized過去分詞 summarized-ing summarizing三單 summarizes
核心畫面
You can picture a thick pile of pages being squeezed down to a few lines: you keep only the points that carry the whole thing, and let the examples, the numbers and the side stories fall away. The short version has to stand on its own, so someone who never read the long one still knows what it said.
可以想成把一疊厚厚的文件壓成幾行字：你只留下撐得起整件事的重點，讓例子、數字、旁邊的小故事全部掉出去。壓縮的方向很關…更多收起
可以想成把一疊厚厚的文件壓成幾行字：你只留下撐得起整件事的重點，讓例子、數字、旁邊的小故事全部掉出去。壓縮的方向很關鍵——不是隨便剪短，而是留骨架、丟細節；而且壓完的那幾行要能自己站著，讓一個從沒讀過長版本的人，聽完也知道裡面在講什麼。原始詞典資料2 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。
summarizeverb/ˈsʌməˌɹaɪz/
- 1
To prepare a summary of (something).
- Jim was asked to summarize the document by Wednesday.
- 2
To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.
- After the meeting, Jim summarized the major decisions made.
- An old friend summarized the mindset of much of the developed world wryly and succinctly: "We don't need the world, we only need money." In other words, we don't actually need real-world sources of life's essentials that are within our control or a functional biosphere because since we can buy everything we could possibly want or need with money. So, money is all we need.
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。