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a jotting of sth
He left a jotting of the meeting on my desk.
他在我桌上留了一张会议简短笔记。
简短的笔记；匆匆写下的便条
jottings — plural of jotting
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
简短的笔记；匆匆写下的便条
a brief and hurriedly handwritten note
He left a jotting of the meeting on my desk.
他在我桌上留了一张会议简短笔记。
简短的笔记；略记
A brief note or sketch
The professor found a jotting on the desk and read it aloud.
教授在桌上发现一张便条，并大声读了出来。
He collected all his jottings and turned them into a short article.
他把自己所有的简短笔记收集起来，写成了一篇短文。
There was a mysterious jotting tucked inside the library book.
那本图书馆的书里夹着一张神秘的便条。
He left a jotting of the meeting on my desk.
他在我桌上留了一张会议简短笔记。
jotting 作名词时常用复数形式 jottings，指零散、匆忙写下的笔记。
Her jottings from the lecture were hard to read.
她听讲座时记的简短笔记很难辨认。
I found the phone number in my jottings.
我在自己匆匆记下的笔记里找到了那个电话号码。
Not this
I wrote jotting in my notebook.
Use this
I wrote a jotting in my notebook.
jotting 是可数名词，单数形式前需要加冠词 a/an 或其他限定词；汉语没有冠词，学习者容易遗漏 a。
Not this
She showed me several jotting from the lecture.
Use this
She showed me several jottings from the lecture.
jotting 的复数是 jottings，在 several、many 等词后必须用复数；汉语名词没有复数变化，容易忘记加 -s。
Not this
Can you make a jot of her address?
Use this
Can you make a jotting of her address?
jot 作名词时意为“很少的量”，不是“笔记”；表示“简短的笔记”要用名词 jotting，注意词性及词义区别。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
粗略的笔记
She made some rough jottings in the margin.
她在页边空白处做了些粗略的笔记。
铅笔写的笔记
His pencil jottings were hard to read.
他铅笔写的笔记很难辨认。
匆忙写下的笔记
The hasty jottings on the envelope were the only clue.
信封上匆忙写下的笔记是唯一线索。
页边笔记
I often make jottings in the margin while reading.
我读书时常在页边做简短笔记。
Use jottings naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把 jot 想成“记一点”，jotting 就是随手记下的简短笔记，像便签上匆匆写下的几个字。
语域：informal 常见场景：personal notebooks、quick reminders、margins of books、informal to-do lists jotting 作为名词指匆匆写下的简短笔记，通常用于日常口语或非正式书面语，多出现在私人笔记、便条或日记等场景，正式写作中较少使用；复数形式 jottings 也比较常见。
These words share the spelling ending -tting, but none rhymes with jotting /ˈdʒɔtiŋ/ because its vowel sound /ɔ/ is different: getting has /ɛ/, sitting has /ɪ/, putting has /ʊ/, letting has /ɛ/, cutting has /ʌ/, and setting has /ɛ/. Be aware of the spelling-sound mismatch.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.