喜樂美語
  1. 1vC1/ˈsʌməraɪz/總結；概述

    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.

    示範例句 · Example

    Can you summarize the story in three sentences?

    逐字你可以用三個句子總結這個故事嗎？

    summarize 是把很長的東西——一份報告、一場會議、一本書、一整頁數字——縮成幾句話，只留下最重要的訊息，細節全部拿掉。它可以想成就像從 summary（摘要）長出來的動詞：先有「摘要」那個短短的版本，summarize 就是「做出那個版本」的動作。英文在學校和職場裡很常用它，也常放在句首當 To summarize,（總結來說，）收尾。

    常見搭配

    • summarize the main points

      把重點總結出來

      to give only the most important ideas of something

      Aisha summarized the main points of the article for her group.

    • to summarize

      總結來說

      used at the start of a sentence to introduce the short version of what you have just said

      To summarize, we need one more week to finish the poster.

    • briefly summarize something

      簡短地概述某件事

      to summarize something in very few words

      Ren briefly summarized what the team had done that month.

    • summarize the findings

      總結研究結果

      to give the main results of a study or piece of research

      The last section summarizes the findings of the whole study.

    • be summarized as follows

      可以總結如下

      used before a short list that gives the main information

      Our plan can be summarized as follows: read, plan, then write.

    • a table / figure summarizes something

      表格／圖表整理出某些重點

      used to say that a table or picture shows the main information

      Figure 3 summarizes how our plants grew each week.

    意思相近

    sum uprecapoutlinegive an overviewcondenseabridge

    意思相反

    elaborateexpand onspell outgo into detail

core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。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

過去式 summarized過去分詞 summarized-ing summarizing三單 summarizes

意思相近

sum uprecapoutlinegive an overviewcondenseabridge

意思相反

elaborateexpand onspell outgo into detail

原始詞典資料2 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。

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.

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