Circumlocution
[,sɜːkəmlə'kjuːʃ(ə)n] or [,sɝkəmlə'kjuʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an indirect way of expressing something.
(noun.) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things.
編輯:米兰达--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.
法耶手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Periphrasis, periphrase, circuit or compass of words, indirect expression, roundabout mode of speech.
手打:特伦斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Periphrasis, verbosity, inconciseness, insuccinctness, ambiguousness,anfractuosity
ANT:Terseness, point, conciseness, succinctness, condensation, directness,plainness, simplicity, coherence
手打:雷切尔
解釋/意思:
n. roundabout speaking: a manner of expression in which many unnecessary words are used.—v.i. Cir′cumlocute to use circumlocution.—n. Circumlocū′tionist one who practises circumlocution.—adj. Circumloc′utory.—Circumlocution office a name given by Dickens in Little Dorrit to the government offices owing to their dilatoriness in attending to business.
凯瑟琳編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- It was this spirit of national efficiency in the Circumlocution Office that had gradually led to its having something to do with everything. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Here arises a feature of the Circumlocution Office, not previously mentioned in the present record. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The question may have been, in the course of official business, referred to the Circumlocution Department for its consideration. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Numbers of people were lost in the Circumlocution Office. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- You are the levers of the Circumlocution Office, and the rulers of men. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- So Arthur resumed the long and hopeless labour of striving to make way with the Circumlocution Office. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Clennam had been poring late over his books and letters; for the waiting-rooms of the Circumlocution Office ravaged his time sorely. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The Barnacle family had for some time helped to administer the Circumlocution Office. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She had a good honest glance and used no circumlocution. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He was under Government--high in the Circumlocution Office. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mr. Losberne, who appeared desirous of gaining time, recounted them at great length, and with much circumlocution. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- All this is true, but the Circumlocution Office went beyond it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mr Barnacle dated from a better time, when the country was not so parsimonious and the Circumlocution Office was not so badgered. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It had done immense service, and brought him into high esteem with the Circumlocution Office. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
編輯:谢恩