中文翻译与英英解释 | n. 1.语言冗长,?唆。 2.躲闪,遁辞;婉转曲折(的说法)。 短语和例子 C- Office 拖拉衙门 〔Dickens 小说 Little Dorrit 中办事拖拉的官僚机关〕。
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| an indirect way of expressing something 同义词:indirect expression,
| | a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things 同义词:periphrasis, ambage,
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Circumlocution (also called periphrasis, circumduction, circumvolution, periphrase, or ambage"Ambage" in American Heritage, and Dictionary.com) is an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech. |
例句与用法 | 1. | 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。
| | 2. | It was the letter of a mode graduate student, polite, detailed, highly organized, with the usual academic circumlocutions . 这是标准的研究生的手笔,彬彬有礼,一丝不苟,层次分明,同时也有点一般学究的八股腔。
| | 3. | " sir , " said madame de saint - m ran , without using any circumlocution , and as if fearing she had no time to lose , " you wrote to me concerning the marriage of this child ? “阁下, ”圣梅朗夫人开门见山地说,象是怕她的时间不够用似的, “写信告诉我说,已经在为这个孩子准备婚事了? ”
| | 4. | Pentagonese - a style of language characterized by the use of euphemisms , technical jargon , acronyms , and circumlocutions , used esp . by people working in the u . s . military establishment 五角大厦语:以术语,首字缩写,淡化语气,且重修饰的文体,特别是美国军方体系的人员所用的文体。
| | 5. | Also , without being actually positive , it struck him a great field was to be opened up in the line of opening up new routes to keep pace with the times apropos of the fishguard - rosslare route which , it was mooted , was once more on the tapis in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally 此外,虽然不到具体实施的程度,他脑子里还浮现出一个想法:为了与时代步调一致,应开拓新天地,开辟新航路。恰当的例子就是菲什加德-罗斯莱尔航路82 。人们纷纷说,经交通省提出后,照例由于衙门冗繁的文牍主义,因循姑息,吊儿郎当,净是蠢才,至今仍在反复审议中83 。
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