indirectly
adv. 間接地; 迂迴地; 婉轉地; 不坦率地
An indirect result or effect is not caused immediately and obviously by a thing or person, but happens because of something else that they have done.
Businesses are feeling the indirect effects from the recession that's going on elsewhere...
企業感受到了別處經濟衰退帶來的間接影響。
Millions could die of hunger as an indirect result of the war...
作為戰爭的間接後果,數百萬人可能會死於飢餓。
An indirect route or journey does not use the shortest or easiest way between two places.
The goods went by a rather indirect route.
這些貨物運輸時走了一條非常迂迴的路線。
Indirect remarks and information suggest something or refer to it, without actually mentioning it or stating it clearly.
His remarks amounted to an indirect appeal for economic aid...
他的話相當於拐彎抹角地請求經濟援助。
There were indirect references to his opponent...
隱晦提到了他的反對者。
1. not in a forthright manner;
Indirectly, I did cause her death. I shouldn'thave left her there.
的確,她的死是我間接造成的。我不該把她留在那裡。
The two sides would only meet indirectly, through middlemen.
雙方只會透過中間人間接接觸。
The president is indirectly elected by parliament.
總統由議會間接選出。
He referred indirectly to the territorial dispute.
他含蓄地提及了領土爭端。
Drugs are indirectly responsible for the violence.
毒品是暴力產生的間接原因。