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circuitous

/ser-kyoo-i-tuhs/US // sərˈkyu ɪ təs //UK // (səˈkjuːɪtəs) //

迂回的,迂回,迂回曲折,迂腐的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : roundabout; not direct: a circuitous route; a circuitous argument.

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Examples

  • After the kids are dropped at school, I take a circuitous route back home, to trace the lineaments of the past in the bricks and pavements of this familiar acre of London.

  • Even so, SKADNetwork will play a key role in sharpening the accuracy of the attribution so it’s not really a workaround per se more a circuitous concession.

  • The path I took was circuitous but ultimately true to those adolescent interests.

  • It is some 4,000 kilometers west of Diego Garcia, but the GPS signals traced a circuitous route that wound through more than 6,000 kilometers of open ocean.

  • My personal journey has taken me on a circuitous route from financial services to Prime memberships to now the current Amazon in the Community team to give back to the community.

  • Otis, who tells me he was called “Saladin” on the inside, has taken an almost tragically circuitous route in getting here.

  • It seems like you took a circuitous route, rather than coming up through some agency.

  • They were flawed and beautiful men in circuitous search of redemption, and Newman wore the characters effortlessly.

  • The pathway to a powerful judgeship is more circuitous than to a State House or Congress.

  • There was nothing new, or even objectionable, in the speech, which took a circuitous historical route to its subject.

  • But at last, long after nightfall, with baby fast asleep, Scattergood drove into Coldriver by deserted and circuitous roads.

  • The pass over the mountains is circuitous and steep, but in fair weather persons travel on the road along the shore.

  • As the train ground its way up the circuitous grades, Houston felt that he was headed finally for the dissolution.

  • He also believed that he could thus join Grant quite as soon as by the more circuitous route by water.

  • The ledge could only be reached by a circuitous route three miles away.