periphrastic
adj. 委婉的,迂迴的,冗長的
1. roundabout and unnecessarily wordy;
John is making a periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion.
約翰正在對陳腐的詩風做迂迴冗長的研究。
Most finite verbal forms diachronically derive from nominalizations and periphrastic constructions with auxiliary verbs.
副詞,後置詞幾乎完全都有名詞性的,形容詞性的或動詞性的起源.