circumlocutory

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基本釋義

I entered the village by the little circumlocutory lane.

我由一條迂回曲折的小徑進了村。

辭典例句

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)

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