roundabout
n. 交通环岛; 旋转木马; 旋转圆台
adj. 迂回的
A roundabout is a circular structure in the road at a place where several roads meet. You drive round it until you come to the road that you want.
A roundabout at a fair is a large, circular mechanical device with seats, often in the shape of animals or cars, on which children sit and go round and round.
A roundabout in a park or school play area is a circular platform that children sit or stand on. People push the platform to make it spin round.
If you go somewhere by a roundabout route, you do not go there by the shortest and quickest route.
He left today on a roundabout route for Jordan and is also due soon in Egypt.
他今天启程绕道去约旦,用不了多久还会去埃及。
If you do or say something in a roundabout way, you do not do or say it in a simple, clear, and direct way.
We made a bit of a fuss in a roundabout way.
我们拐弯抹角地发了点牢骚。
...using indirect or roundabout language in place of a precise noun.
使用间接的、旁敲侧击的语言,而不是准确的名词
1. a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island;
2. large mechanical apparatus with seats for children to ride on
1. marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct;
2. deviating from a straight course;
When you are playing a roundabout, does the view change?
当你在旋转机上玩耍时, 景会变化 吗 ?
The traffic gets snarled up very often at that roundabout.
在那个环形路的交叉口,交通时常发生阻塞.
What a roundabout way of doing things!
这是个多么绕圈子做事的方法!
The route was getting a little too roundabout for me.
对我来说,路有些太绕弯了.
Abundance doesn't mean redundance. hound found a profound book on the roundabout.
充裕其实不料味骈枝. 猎犬在扭转木顿时找到一本深奥的书.