Roundabout
['raʊndəbaʊt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
(a.) Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
(n.) A horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round.
(n.) A dance performed in a circle.
(n.) A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.
(n.) A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude.
手打:丽塔
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Indirect, tortuous, circuitous.[2]. [Rare.] That looks on all sides, not narrow, not one-sided.
編輯:纳内特
同義詞及反義詞：
[See_PUTRID]
錄入:洛根
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of seeing a roundabout, denotes that you will struggle unsuccessfully to advance in fortune or love.
手打:苏珊
例句/造句/用法:
- You did not see it because I led you not in the beaten tracks, but through roundabout passages seldom used. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- His usual roundabout manner of going to work proved, on this occasion, to be more roundabout than ever. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I have had some experience, Fosco, of your roundabout ways, and I am not so sure that you won't worm it out of me after all. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Some of our party have gone to England, intending to take a roundabout course and rejoin the vessel at Leghorn or Naples several weeks hence. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Is it necessary for me to use any roundabout phrase? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Then we tried to get it by all kinds of roundabout ways, but in no case could anybody get them at that office. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But you are not so roundabout, Little Eyes, that I don't notice your answering for Pubsey and Co. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It'll lead in a roundabout manner to your buying damage and waste of Pubsey and Co. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I say to my great relief, because I inferred that Laura must, for some unknown reason, have returned before me by this roundabout way. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is a roundabout wheedling sort of thing which I should not have credited you with. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
編輯:塔比瑟