roundabout
n. 交通環島; 旋轉木馬; 旋轉圓臺
adj. 迂迴的
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.
他今天啟程繞道去約旦,用不了多久還會去埃及。
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.
我們拐彎抹角地發了點牢騷。
...using indirect or roundabout language in place of a precise noun.
使用間接的、旁敲側擊的語言,而不是準確的名詞
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?
當你在旋轉機上玩耍時, 景會變化 嗎 ?
The traffic gets snarled up very often at that roundabout.
在那個環形路的交叉口,交通時常發生阻塞.
What a roundabout way of doing things!
這是個多麼繞圈子做事的方法!
The route was getting a little too roundabout for me.
對我來說,路有些太繞彎了.
Abundance doesn't mean redundance. hound found a profound book on the roundabout.
充裕其實不料味駢枝. 獵犬在扭轉木頓時找到一本深奧的書.