详细释义
Adjective:
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roundabout and unnecessarily wordy;
"had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"
"A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."
双语例句
- 1. John is making a periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion.
- 约翰正在对陈腐的诗风做迂回冗长的研究。
来自辞典例句
- 2. Most finite verbal forms diachronically derive from nominalizations and periphrastic constructions with auxiliary verbs.
- 副词,后置词几乎完全都有名词性的,形容词性的或动词性的起源.
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相关词汇
- roundabout 绕道的
- circumlocutory 委婉曲折的
- indirect 间接的
- meandering 曲径
- circuitous 迂回的
- convoluted 旋绕的
- oblique 间接的
- tortuous 弯曲的
- circumlocutious 迂回的
- ambagious 迂远的
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