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。

• circumlocution相关词

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

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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

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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.

• circumlocution剑桥字典
• circumlocution柯林斯字典

专业释义

语言学

• 婉转曲折的说法，累赘的陈述；遁辞