(noun.) a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work.
手打:西摩
双语例句
This compendium of all the old Roman virtues died at an advanced age, respected and feared. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Here was begun the copying of manuscripts, and the preparation of compendiums treating of gramma r, dialectic, rhetoric, arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry. 李贝.西洋科学史.