circumlocution

常見例句

雙語例句

• With typical circumlocution, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia recently said as much.
  沙特的阿卜杜拉國(guó)王最近也同樣語意婉轉(zhuǎn)說了不少。
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• The musical beauty, moreover, is shown by the aesthetics of equilibrium, complication, cadence and of circumlocution.
  文學(xué)語言的音樂美又表現(xiàn)為回環(huán)美、抑揚(yáng)美、均衡美和錯(cuò)綜美。
• The correct defence of athanasius is surely not that he avoided a lie by ingenious circumlocution but that the circumstances justified lying.
  亞大納西的回答之所以正確，顯然不在于他以巧妙的迂回辭令避免了撒謊，而是特定環(huán)境下說謊并不為過。

權(quán)威例句

• Or will you allow me to go straight, without any circumlocution, to our little agenda?
  NEWYORKER: Heirs
• This would not be the first time a bit of linguistic circumlocution got the country out of a revenue bind.
  FORBES: If It Would Make The GOP Happy, Let's Call Tax Hikes 'Kumquats'
• Ideas that could be expressed only as a clunky circumlocution in English can be collapsed into a single word in Ithkuil.
  NEWYORKER: Utopian for Beginners
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