gist
gist
[dʒɪst]
noun
[in sing.]
[dʒɪst]
noun
[in sing.]
- the substance or essence of a speech or text
（演说或文章）主旨，要点
she noted the gist of each message.
她注意每一来电的要点。 - (Law)the real point of an action
(律)诉讼要点
damage is the gist of the action and without it the plaintiff must fail.
造成损伤是这次诉讼的要点，不抓住它原告必定失败。
- early 18th cent.: from Old French, third person singular present tense of gesir 'to lie', from Latin jacere. The Anglo-French legal phrase cest action gist 'this action lies' denoted that there were sufficient grounds to proceed; gist was adopted into English denoting the grounds themselves (sense 2)
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