in a nutshell

副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. In summary; briefly or simply. idiomatic
    — He had a lot to say, but his answer, in a nutshell, was no.

词源

Calque of New Latin in nuce, derived from an anecdote in Pliny the Elder, who ascribes to Cicero the claim that the whole Iliad was once written on parchment and enclosed within a nutshell (Naturalis Historia 7.21.85).
Compare typologically Czech stručný, stručně (< struk).
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