Hedges get the features of indirectness, cancelability, markedness and indefiniteness.

模糊措辞具有间接性，可取消性，明显性和不确定性的特征。

Indirectness is one universal of languages.

语言的间接性是人类语言的共性之一。

They are more elaborate because people practice indirectness.

这类闲言更加复杂，因为人们通常都比较间接。

There are more layers to it because people practice indirectness and avoidance.

它往往有更多的层次，因为人们总试图不那么直接地表达出来。

Directness and indirectness form a contradiction, but, on the other hand, they are united into a whole.

直接与间接是矛盾的，同时又是统一的。