periphrastic
英 [,perɪ'fræstɪk]
美[,pɛrə'fræstɪk]
- adj. 迂回的；冗长的；委婉的
英英释意
- 1. roundabout and unnecessarily wordy;
- "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"
- "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
双语例句
- 1. John is making a periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion.
- 约翰正在对陈腐的诗风做迂回冗长的研究。
来自辞典例句
- 2. Most finite verbal forms diachronically derive from nominalizations and periphrastic constructions with auxiliary verbs.
- 副词,后置词几乎完全都有名词性的,形容词性的或动词性的起源.
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