circumlocution

常见例句

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。
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The musical beauty, moreover, is shown by the aesthetics of equilibrium, complication, cadence and of circumlocution.
文学语言的音乐美又表现为回环美、抑扬美、均衡美和错综美。
The correct defence of athanasius is surely not that he avoided a lie by ingenious circumlocution but that the circumstances justified lying.
亚大纳西的回答之所以正确，显然不在于他以巧妙的迂回辞令避免了撒谎，而是特定环境下说谎并不为过。

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