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indirect

/in-duh-rekt, -dahy-/US // ˌɪn dəˈrɛkt, -daɪ- //UK // (ˌɪndɪˈrɛkt) //

间接,间接的,间线,间断的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
    • : coming or resulting otherwise than directly or immediately, as effects or consequences: an indirect advantage.
    • : not direct in action or procedure: His methods are indirect but not dishonest.
    • : not straightforward; devious; deceitful: He is known as a shady, indirect fellow.
    • : not direct in bearing, application, force, etc.: indirect evidence.
    • : Grammar. of, relating to, or characteristic of indirect discourse: an indirect quote.
    • : not descending in a direct line of succession, as a title or inheritance.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.roundabout; unintended
Synonyms
ambiguous含糊不清,含糊不清的,模糊不清,模糊不清的ancillary辅助的,辅助性的,辅助性,附属的circuitous迂回的,迂回,迂回曲折,迂腐的implied隐含的,隐含,暗示的,隐含着incidental偶然的,附带的,偶发性的,偶发的oblique偏斜,偏斜的,倾斜的,歪歪斜斜tortuous曲折的,迂回的,迂回曲折,弯弯曲曲的collateral抵押品,担保品,抵押物,抵押品类circular通报,通告,通函,通稿circumlocutory旁敲侧击,周边,旁证,旁敲侧击的complicated复杂的,复杂,错综复杂的,错综复杂contingent特遣队,特遣队员,特遣队成员,特遣队的crooked弯曲的,歪歪扭扭,歪曲,歪曲的devious狡猾的,奸诈的,邪恶的,狡诈的discursive辨证的,辨析性的,辨析性,辨证法duplicitous两面派,两面三刀,奸诈的,奸诈erratic飘忽不定,飘忽不定的,反复无常,反覆无常eventual最终,最终的,最终的结果long长,长的,长时间,长期long way home归途漫漫,漫漫归途,长途跋涉,漫漫人生路long-drawn-out旷日持久的,旷日持久的拖延,旷日持久,冗长long-winded啰嗦,啰嗦的,啰里啰嗦的,啰里啰嗦meandering蜿蜒曲折,弯弯曲曲的,弯弯曲曲,蜿蜒曲折的obscure模糊不清,不明显,不明显的,无名小卒out-of-the-way荒僻的,荒僻的地方,僻远的,僻静的periphrastic缩略语,句法,句式,补语rambling漫无边际,胡言乱语,漫无边际的,漫无目的secondary次级,次要的,二级,次级的serpentine蛇形结构,蛇形,蛇形线,蛇形的sidelong旁敲侧击,侧身,侧面,侧面的sinister邪恶的,阴险,狰狞,阴险的sinuous蜿蜒曲折的,蜿蜒曲折,蜿蜒的,蜿蜒snaking蛇行,蛇形,蜿蜒曲折,蛇形结构sneaking偷偷摸摸,偷偷摸摸的,偷偷摸摸地,鬼鬼祟祟sneaky鬼鬼祟祟,鬼鬼祟祟的,偷偷摸摸,偷偷摸摸的subsidiary附属机构,附属公司,附属,附属的twisting缠绕,扭曲,缠绕的,捻线underhand低头族,劣势,劣质的,劣势地位vagrant流浪者,流浪汉,无业游民,游荡者wandering游荡的,游荡,流浪的,游荡的人winding缠绕,绕组,蜿蜒曲折,缠绕的zigzag之字形,之字型,之字形的,人字形

Examples

  • What they didn’t measure was the “indirect” effect of vaccines in preventing the further spread of the virus, even though some computer models have predicted that blocking transmission could save more lives.

  • Besides, high readability levels will make your content hard to understand for people with various cognitive disabilities, so this may be another indirect signal to Google that your content is good for a limited audience.

  • Under the newly passed requirement, brokers and consultants must tell employers the various forms of direct or indirect compensation they receive from vendors associated with a health plan.

  • Respiratory indirect calorimetry is typically done at a doctor’s office, although small, portable, more affordable devices are increasingly being brought to market.

  • One indirect way to do it is to fill it with three-dimensional triangular tiles.

  • This is true, but it indicates the other, more indirect cost of Edmund.

  • Living with the threat of random death raining down leads to a strange way of life, a pathology of indirect fire.

  • Instead, officials are musing about indirect sources of supply, by and through third countries.

  • And the new channels tend to be underground, indirect, and unaccountable.

  • Additionally, if inflation happened, it was so early on that we can only ever see indirect evidence for it.

  • In such cases, Synthesis, which is taught hereafter, develops an indirect relation.

  • Indirect lighting gave a pretty gleam to the metal gadgets on the tables.

  • Here undoubtedly we may see the indirect influence which the New School exercised upon Tchaikovsky.

  • Signalized as the hardiest of the indirect allies of the brigands in the affair of the "Chauffeurs of Mortagne."

  • Robert Burns, who has sung of the haggis and the whisky of his native land, has only made indirect mention of porridge.