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

同根派生

• adj性質的同根詞

  circumlocutory：迂廻的；委婉曲折的；柺彎抹角的。

• vt性質的同根詞

  circumambulate：巡行；繞行；婉轉打探。

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英汉例句

雙語例句

• 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。

權威例句

• 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

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词组短语

短語

• 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

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• (an example of) an indirect way of saying something, especially something unpleasant

柯林斯英英字典

• A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.

• circumlocution剑桥字典
• circumlocution柯林斯字典

专业释义

語言學

• 婉轉曲折的說法，累贅的陳述；遁辤