circumlocution

常見例句

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(zhuǎn)說了不少。
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The musical beauty, moreover, is shown by the aesthetics of equilibrium, complication, cadence and of circumlocution.
文學(xué)語言的音樂美又表現(xiàn)爲(wèi)廻環(huán)美、抑?jǐn)?、均衡美和錯(cuò)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(huán)境下說謊竝不爲(wèi)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