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circuitous

英 [sɜː'kjuːɪtəs] 美[sɚ'kjʊɪtəs]

英英释义实用场景例句

近义词indirect circular

adj. 迂曲的；绕行的；迂回线路的

GRE畅通词汇

词态变化

副词: circuitously;

英英释意

1. marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct;: "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"

2. deviating from a straight course;: "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"

英文词源

circuitous (adj.): 1660s, from Medieval Latin circuitous "full of roundabout ways," from Latin circuitus "a going round" (see circuit (n.)). Related: Circuitously; circuitousness.

实用场景例句

The cabdriver took them on a circuitous route to the police station...: 出租车司机载着他们绕了个大圈才到警察局。

Stuart came into film-making via a circuitous route.: 斯图尔特费尽周折才最终开始电影制作。

We had to take a circuitous route because of an accident on the turnpike.: 由于收费公路上发生了事故,我们不得不走一条弯路.

They took a circuitous route to avoid reporters.: 他们绕道避开了记者.

His explanation was circuitous and puzzling.: 他的解释在兜圈子,让人费解.

By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes , he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose.: 易其居,迂其途, 使民不得虑.

Invitations went through third parties and some of the visitors traveled circuitous routes to attend.: 邀请函都是通过第三者发出的,有的客商是几经中转才来到此地.

The figure is a circuitous conduit for the transmission of energies.: 这图形是一种作为能量传导的迂回的媒介.

Mr Zoellick is attentive to means: charting a path, however circuitous, to his destination.: 现在佐立克先生则致力于方法: 规划一途径通向他的目标, 不管这条路有多曲折.

Modest words, taboo words and circuitous words were the usual expression way of euphemistic rhetoric.: 委婉修辞常用的表现方式有谦敬语、避讳语、迂回语等.

The more circuitous route would be the quickest.: 采取比较迂回的路线,可能是捷径.

Many factors caused taking elective classes in the implementation of the system in advance circuitous.: 诸多因素造成了选修走班制的实施在迂回中前进.

It comes in via various circuitous routes.: 热钱是通过各种迂回路线进入中国的.

Or it burrowed through the problem by some circuitous loophole of logic.: 或者通过某种拐弯抹角的逻辑漏洞草草掠过问题.

Because of the traffic congestion on the main highways, she took a circuitous route.: 由于交通挤塞的主要公路, 她采取了迂回路线.

Like other great Russian composers, Tschaikovsky arrived at music by a circuitous route, almost by accident.: 同许多俄国的伟大作曲家一样, 柴可夫斯基经历了一条曲折的道路才到达音乐的国土, 并且几乎是出于偶然.

So circuitous, a cost price 26 yuan book, save after all how many money to leave?: 如此迂回, 一本原价26元的书, 到底省下了多少钱?

Veranda's jujube red, apricot yellow curtain, circuitous rockery, exquisite bonsai, Chinese Pode shade garden effect.: 枣红色的游廊、杏黄色的帘、假山迂回, 盆景精妙, 颇得中华庭院掩映之妙.

Many alien plants have become introduced by highly circuitous routes.: 许多外来植物是通过极其迂回曲折的道路引进的.

The explanation was circuitous and puzzling.: 这个解释很迂曲,让人困惑不解.

The cabdriver took them on a circuitous route to the police station.: 出租车司机载着他们绕了个大圈才到警察局。