circumlocution
发音
英 [ˌsɜ:kəmləˈkju:ʃn]
美 [ˌsɜrkəmləˈkjuʃn]
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- n.
- 迂回的话语
- 托词
- 累赘的话
- 累赘的说法
单词词源
circumlocution 迂回说法
circum-,圈，周围，-loc,说，见locution,colloquy.
双语例句
- 1. 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。
- 2. Under the market economy , the genius of the republic of letters was increasingly fickle , the literary spirit deviated and descended , creative writing displayed circumlocution and speedy commercialization .
- 在市场经济条件下，文坛风气日益浮躁，文学精神变异沉沦，文学创作日趋边缘化，文学作品快速商品化。
- 3. Published just after the second world war-that is , just after most of the world had been nearly destroyed by ideologues-the essay said that much political language , by means of circumlocution and euphemism and other doctorings , was " designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable . "
- 这篇文章发表时二战刚刚结束也就是说，大部分国家刚刚经历了由意识形态带来的灭顶之灾说的是大部分的政治语言通过累赘的陈述、委婉的说辞和其他的删减，“让谎言听起来像真的，让杀人者听起来是可敬的。”