circumlocutions的中文翻译是什么意思

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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。