单词盒子

circumlocution

C 开头单词

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. 婉转曲折的说法，累赘的陈述；遁辞

词根记忆

  • circum(绕圈) + locu(说话) + tion→说话绕圈子→迂回累赘的陈述
  • circum(绕圈) + locu(说话) + tion→说话绕圈子→婉转曲折的陈述

同根派生

  • adj性质的同根词
    circumlocutory：迂回的；委婉曲折的；拐弯抹角的。
  • vt性质的同根词
    circumambulate：巡行；绕行；婉转打探。

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • 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。
    ecocn.org
  • The musical beauty, moreover, is shown by the aesthetics of equilibrium, complication, cadence and of circumlocution.
    文学语言的音乐美又表现为回环美、抑扬美、均衡美和错综美。
  • The correct defence of athanasius is surely not that he avoided a lie by ingenious circumlocution but that the circumstances justified lying.
    亚大纳西的回答之所以正确，显然不在于他以巧妙的迂回辞令避免了撒谎，而是特定环境下说谎并不为过。

    • 权威例句

  • 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

词组短语

    短语

  • circumlocution strategy 迂回策略
  • circumlocution syndrome 说话兜圈子的毛病
  • circumlocution office 兜圈子部
  • circumlocution detail 累赘的说法

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • (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.

专业释义

    语言学

  • 婉转曲折的说法，累赘的陈述；遁辞