美[?s?:rk?ml??kju:?n] 1 . " The wife of your father's brother " is a circumlocution for " your aunt ".
“ 你爸爸的兄弟的妻子 ” 是 “ 你嬸子 ” 的累贅的說法.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2 . He is a master at circumlocution .
他講話很會兜圈子.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3 . It was always when you most wanted a direct answer that Greenfield came up with a circumlocution .
總是在你最想得到一個直截了當?shù)幕卮饡r，格林菲爾德卻要繞上十八個彎。
來自柯林斯例句
4 . This sort of ritual circumlocution is common to many parts of mathematics.
這種繁冗的遁辭常見于數(shù)學的許多部分分式中.
來自辭典例句
1.a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
2.an indirect way of expressing something
