circumlocutions的中文翻譯是什麼意思

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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.

  總是在你最想得到一個直截了當的回答時，格林菲爾德卻要繞上十八個彎。