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词典释义:
circumlocution
时间: 2024-07-03 07:10:55
GRE
英 [ˌsəːkəmləˈkjuːʃ(ə)n]
美 [ˌsərkəmˌləˈkjuʃ(ə)n]

n. 迂回的说法;累赘的话;遁词

双语例句
  • The spokesman used circumlocution about the disaster.

    发言人对这次受灾情况用了委婉曲折的说法。

  • I want you to tell him the news of failure in circumlocution.

    我希望你能委婉地告诉他失败的消息。

  • The star is always in circumlocution with reporters' questions.

    这位明星对记者的提问总是拐弯抹角。

  • "Economical with the truth" is a circumlocution for "lying".

    对实情惜字如金是撒谎的委婉说法

  • One apt word can be much clearer than a flurry of circumlocution.

    比起一连串迂回的解释,一个准确恰当的单词更能清楚地表达意思。

  • This sort of ritual circumlocution is common to many parts of mathematics.

    这种繁冗的遁辞常见于数学的许多部分分式中。

  • With typical circumlocution, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia recently said as much.

    沙特的阿卜杜拉国王最近也同样语意婉转说了不少。

  • It is shown by the aesthetics of equilibrium, complication, cadence and of circumlocution.

    文学语言的韵律美主要表现为均衡美、回环美、抑扬美、错综美。

  • It was always when you most wanted a direct answer that Greenfield came up with a circumlocution.

    总是在你最想得到一个直截了当的回答时,格林菲尔德却要绕上十八个弯。

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词根 circumlocutory

释义
n.

the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive

(尤指故弄玄虚或推托时使用的)迂回的说法,累赘的话,遁词

  • his admission came after years of circumlocution

    他蒙混了几年才承认

  • [count noun]he used a number of poetic circumlocutions.

    他用了一些迂回曲折的诗歌用语。

词源

"late Middle English: from Latin circumlocution-) (translating Greek periphrasis), from circum ‘around' + locution-) from loqui ‘speak’."

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