circumlocution
n. 迂回的话语; 托词; 累赘的话; 累赘的说法
A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
It was always when you most wanted a direct answer that Greenfield came up with a circumlocution.
总是在你最想得到一个直截了当的回答时,格林菲尔德却要绕上十八个弯。
1. a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
2. an indirect way of expressing something
He is a master at circumlocution.
他讲话很会兜圈子.
" The wife of your father's brother " is a circumlocution for " your aunt ".
“ 你爸爸的兄弟的妻子 ” 是 “ 你婶子 ” 的累赘的说法.
This sort of ritual circumlocution is common to many parts of mathematics.
这种繁冗的遁辞常见于数学的许多部分分式中.
It was always when you most wanted a direct answer that Greenfield came up with a circumlocution.
总是在你最想得到一个直截了当的回答时,格林菲尔德却要绕上十八个弯。