a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
an indirect way of expressing something
双语例句
1. " The wife of your father's brother " is a circumlocution for " your aunt ".
“ 你爸爸的兄弟的妻子 ” 是 “ 你婶子 ” 的累赘的说法.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. He is a master at circumlocution.
他讲话很会兜圈子.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. 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。
来自柯林斯例句
4. 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.
来自辞典例句
用作名词 (n.)
He is a master at circumlocution. 他讲话很会兜圈子。
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。
The sort of circumlocution is required in nearly every use of a method that returns null in place of a zero length array. 类遁辞在几乎在零的长度列阵位置退回零位对方法的每个用途需要。
