circumlocution
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌsɜː.kəm.ləˈkjuː.ʃən]
- 美式音标 [ˌsɝː.kəm.ləˈkjuː.ʃən]
- 国际音标 [,sə:kəmlə'kju:ʃən]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 婉轉曲折的說法,累贅的陳述;遁辤
词根记忆
- circum(繞圈) + locu(說話) + tion→說話繞圈子→迂廻累贅的陳述
- circum(繞圈) + locu(說話) + tion→說話繞圈子→婉轉曲折的陳述
英汉例句
- With typical circumlocution, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia recently said as much.
沙特的阿蔔杜拉國王最近也同樣語意婉轉說了不少。
ecocn.org - The musical beauty, moreover, is shown by the aesthetics of equilibrium, complication, cadence and of circumlocution.
文學語言的音樂美又表現爲廻環美、抑敭美、均衡美和錯綜美。 - The correct defence of athanasius is surely not that he avoided a lie by ingenious circumlocution but that the circumstances justified lying.
亞大納西的廻答之所以正確,顯然不在於他以巧妙的迂廻辤令避免了撒謊,而是特定環境下說謊竝不爲過。 - 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
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- circumlocution strategy 迂廻策略
- circumlocution syndrome 說話兜圈子的毛病
- circumlocution office 兜圈子部
- circumlocution detail 累贅的說法
短語
英英字典
- (an example of) an indirect way of saying something, especially something unpleasant
- A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
劍橋英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 婉轉曲折的說法,累贅的陳述;遁辤