Circumlocution

(noun.) an indirect way of expressing something.

(noun.) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things.

编辑:米兰达

• It was this spirit of national efficiency in the Circumlocution Office that had gradually led to its having something to do with everything. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Here arises a feature of the Circumlocution Office, not previously mentioned in the present record. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The question may have been, in the course of official business, referred to the Circumlocution Department for its consideration. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Numbers of people were lost in the Circumlocution Office. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• You are the levers of the Circumlocution Office, and the rulers of men. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• So Arthur resumed the long and hopeless labour of striving to make way with the Circumlocution Office. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Clennam had been poring late over his books and letters; for the waiting-rooms of the Circumlocution Office ravaged his time sorely. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The Barnacle family had for some time helped to administer the Circumlocution Office. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She had a good honest glance and used no circumlocution. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He was under Government--high in the Circumlocution Office. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Mr. Losberne, who appeared desirous of gaining time, recounted them at great length, and with much circumlocution. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• All this is true, but the Circumlocution Office went beyond it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Mr Barnacle dated from a better time, when the country was not so parsimonious and the Circumlocution Office was not so badgered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It had done immense service, and brought him into high esteem with the Circumlocution Office. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

编辑:谢恩