扼要
è yào
Pinyin

Definition

扼要
 - 
è yào
  1. to the point
  2. concise

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

要
yāo
  1. 1 to demand
  2. 2 to request
  3. 3 to coerce
主要
zhǔ yào
  1. 1 main
  2. 2 principal
  3. 3 major
  4. 4 primary
只要
zhǐ yào
  1. 1 if only
  2. 2 so long as
必要
bì yào
  1. 1 necessary
  2. 2 essential
  3. 3 indispensable
  4. 4 required
想要
xiǎng yào
  1. 1 to want to
  2. 2 to feel like
  3. 3 to fancy
  4. 4 to care for sb
  5. 5 desirous of

Idioms (13)

不要在一棵树上吊死
bù yào zài yī kē shù shàng diào sǐ
  1. 1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
  2. 2 there's more than one way to skin a cat
刀不磨要生锈，人不学要落后
dāo bù mó yào shēng xiù , rén bù xué yào luò hòu
  1. 1 a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom)
切中要害
qiè zhòng yào hài
  1. 1 to hit the target and do real damage (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to hit where it hurts
  3. 3 fig. to hit home
  4. 4 an argument that hits the nail on the head
又要马儿跑，又要马儿不吃草
yòu yào mǎ r pǎo , yòu yào mǎ r bù chī cǎo
  1. 1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too
只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针
zhǐ yào gōng fu shēn , tiě chǔ mó chéng zhēn
  1. 1 If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle.
  2. 2 cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task
  3. 3 to study diligently

Sample Sentences

成，简明扼要地说，行万里路或读万卷书都需要时间。根据《一万小时天才理论》观点，若想成为某个领域的专家，至少需要付出一万个小时的努力。
chéng ，jiǎnmíngèyào de shuō ，xíng wàn lǐ lù huò dú wàn juǎn shū dōu xūyào shíjiān 。gēnjù 《yīwàn xiǎoshí tiāncái lǐlùn 》guāndiǎn ，ruò xiǎng chéngwéi mǒuge lǐngyù de zhuānjiā ，zhìshǎo xūyào fùchū yīwàn gè xiǎoshí de nǔlì 。
Sure. To put it succinctly, you need time to travel 10,000 miles or to read 10,000 books. According to a notion put forth in 'The Talent Code', if you want to become an expert at something, you need to spend hard effort on it for at least 10,000 hours.
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