单词	shorthand
释义	shorthandshort‧hand /ˈʃɔːthænd $ ˈʃɔːrt-/ noun [uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Candidates may use any system of shorthand writing. If your missive is addressed to your colleagues, then jargon may be acceptable shorthand. It is an acceptable shorthand if we understand by it that students learn how to form a relationship with what they learn. It is unfortunate that shorthand here makes Lewis imply that the life of submission to Grace is a course of self-improvement. Jargon is an effective form of shorthand, provided everyone understands it. More important was the style of dancing which was now defined by a shorthand record of steps. That is a reasonable shorthand for the problems that have recently rocked the so-called Republican revolution. What seem the simplest phrases in journalese shorthand can be very confusing. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► typist · My first job was as a shorthand typist - I was fired after three days, mainly for poor spelling.· She was a more than competent shorthand typist and an efficient secretary.· Barbara joined us as a junior shorthand typist in 1949. VERB► take · It was therefore natural to test the phonograph as if it were taking down shorthand.· Everywhere he took notes in shorthand. 1a fast method of writing using special signs or shorter forms to represent letters, words, and phrasesin shorthand The reporter took notes in shorthand. a secretary who takes shorthand (=writes in shorthand) → longhand2a shorter but less clear way of saying somethingshorthand for He’s been ‘relocated’, which is shorthand for ‘given a worse job a long way away’.
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