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periphrastic [peri'fræstik]
基本释义
- a. 委婉的,迂回的,冗长的
词形变化
- 副 词:per'i·phras'ti·cal·ly
英英解释
1个形容词解释
- roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
[同] ambagious, periphrastic, circumlocutious, circumlocutory
[例]- 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 w
- roundabout and unnecessarily wordy