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单词 gist
释义
gist
noun[SorU]
uk/dʒɪst/us/dʒɪst/
the mostimportantpiecesofinformationabout something, orgeneralinformationwithoutdetails:
Wegot thegist, but not every word.
I was just aboutabletograspthegistoftheirargument.
Readingforgistrequireslessdetailedcomprehension.
More examples
  • I got the gist oftheirconversation.
  • As Iunderstandit, this is the gist oftheirargument.
  • He told me the gist of it.
  • Just give me the gist.
  • I onlyunderstoodthe gist.
  • Here's the gist: theansweris to be incontrol.
  • I won'tcontinue, but you'll have got my gist by now.
  • That was thebasicgist.
  • I might get thegeneralgist, butmissthenuances.
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  • nutshell
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  • resume
  • shorthand
  • shorthand forsomethingidiom
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  • to cut a long story shortidiom
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(Definition ofgistfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

gist| American Dictionary

gist
noun[U]
us
/dʒɪst/
themainsubject, withoutdetails, of apieceofinformation:
The gist of what she said was that I didn’tknowwhat I wastalkingabout.
(Definition ofgistfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgist

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By early adolescence, gists or principles governing social exchange are typically encoded in the social-cognitive repertoire of normal subjects.
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Thegistof the policy was that new industrial units and expansion of existing units on the island and suburbs would be strongly discouraged.
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In other words, subjects recalled propositional content (orgist) with similar levels of accuracy across two types of tasks (immediate and delayed recall).
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Thegistof affine equivalence techniques is to use these estimates in combination with the pullback formulas (2.16)-(2.19) for vector proxies.
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Despite predictable pitfalls, reliance ongistacross superficially different problems is essential for achieving descriptive invariance - the fundamental criterion of rationality.
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Their recommendations on the aged poor help to give thegistof their views.
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Evidence indicating enhanced memory for thegistof emotional events is reviewed as are psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying this enhancement.
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This gives thegistof the narrative, but does not cover many other important aspects of the unfolding tragedy of the war.
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I will address the contested details before restating thegistof the original critique and by so doing suggest that it still stands unanswered.
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Thegistof the task is as follows.
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This casts doubt on the worth and usefulness of the dialectic between anthropology and medicine - as neither captures thegistof the experience at stake.
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Thegistof the problem is that supervenience, by itself, only guarantees that one kind of fact is 'fixed' by other kinds of fact.
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Three weeks later subjects were asked to recall thegistof the film clips in each series.
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That, in fact, is thegistof any defense offered by the federal administration to date.
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Here is thegistof an argument for that claim.
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