adj. 1.转弯抹角的，迂回的；冗长的，?嗦的。 2.【修辞学】迂说法的。 短语和例子 the periphrastic conjugation 【语法】迂说法动词变化〔如不用 went 而用 did go〕。 the periphrastic genitive 迂说法所有格〔如不说 Caesar's，而说 of Caesar〕。 adv. -tically
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) 同义词：circumlocutious, circumlocutory, ambagious,
例句与用法
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By a periphrastic version of the general text 他对原文大致做了一番冗长的口译。
2.
Being a man true to my word , today we ll look at two such constructions , the ablative absolute and the passive periphrastic ; as well as the dative of agent 身为言而有信之人，今天我要介绍独立从格和迂说被动这两种结构，以及施事予格（间接受格）的用法。
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