基本释义
- adj.
- （行文说话等）委婉曲折的，迂回的
词性变化
- 名词:circumlocution;
实用例句
I entered the village by the little circumlocutory lane.
我由一条迂回曲折的小径进了村。
辞典例句
英英释义
Adjective
1. roundabout and unnecessarily wordy;
"had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"
"A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)