not sloppily; without rambling or branching; neither spreading about nor branching out; concise; suc cinct
❍ 这篇短篇小说写得～。This short story is by no means sloppily written.
不蔓不枝bù màn bù zhī
蔓：蔓生植物所生出的长茎。多比喻说话或写作简洁流畅。be succinet,neither spreading about nor branching out-concise,without ramblings and stragglings