概括
gàikuò
to summarize, to generalize
Part of speech · verb
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Examples
- 请用一句话概括这篇文章。Please summarize this article in one sentence.
- 这个词很难用别的词来概括。This word is hard to sum up with another.
Collocations
概括内容高度概括概括起来简要概括
Mnemonic
概 gài "general" + 括 kuò "to bundle": to bundle the gist together, i.e. to summarize, to generalize. 括 has the hand radical 扌 (drawing together). 高度概括 = to summarize concisely. Opposite of 详述 (to elaborate).
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