periphrastic

释义

adj.委婉的，迂回的，冗长的

词态变化

名词 :   periphrasis ;

实用场景例句

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。

辞典例句

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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英英释义

Adjective

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)