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roundabout

/adjective round-uh-bout, round-uh-bout; noun round-uh-bout/US // adjective ˌraʊnd əˈbaʊt, ˈraʊnd əˌbaʊt; noun ˈraʊnd əˌbaʊt //UK // (ˈraʊndəˌbaʊt) //

迂回曲折,迂回,迂回式,绕行

Related Words

collateral抵押品,担保品,抵押物,抵押品类oblique偏斜,偏斜的,倾斜的,歪歪斜斜circular通报,通告,通函,通稿ambiguous含糊不清,含糊不清的,模糊不清,模糊不清的circuitous迂回的,迂回,迂回曲折,迂腐的deviating偏离的,偏差的,偏离,偏差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evasive闪烁其词,闪烁其词的,闪缩的,闪避meandering蜿蜒曲折,弯弯曲曲的,弯弯曲曲,蜿蜒曲折的tortuous曲折的,迂回的,迂回曲折,弯弯曲曲的periphrastic缩略语,句法,句式,补语circumlocutory旁敲侧击,周边,旁证,旁敲侧击的obliquitous仄仄的,仄仄平平,倾斜的,仄平的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
    • : cut circularly at the bottom; having no tails, train, or the like.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
    • : British. a merry-go-round.
    • : a circuitous or indirect road, method, etc.
    • : Chiefly British. traffic circle.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.indirect
Forms: roundabouts
Synonyms
circular通报,通告,通函,通稿collateral抵押品,担保品,抵押物,抵押品类oblique偏斜,偏斜的,倾斜的,歪歪斜斜ambiguous含糊不清,含糊不清的,模糊不清,模糊不清的circuitous迂回的,迂回,迂回曲折,迂腐的circumlocutory旁敲侧击,周边,旁证,旁敲侧击的deviating偏离的,偏差的,偏离,偏差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evasive闪烁其词,闪烁其词的,闪缩的,闪避meandering蜿蜒曲折,弯弯曲曲的,弯弯曲曲,蜿蜒曲折的obliquitous仄仄的,仄仄平平,倾斜的,仄平的periphrastic缩略语,句法,句式,补语taking the long way长途跋涉,远道而来的,长路漫漫,远道而来tortuous曲折的,迂回的,迂回曲折,弯弯曲曲的

Examples

  • Drivers approaching the town must slow from 45 mph to 25 mph before entering the first roundabout on the edge of town.

  • The refugee took a roundabout journey across Europe from Poland to asylum.

  • That’s a roundabout way of saying that Joe Penna’s Stowaway—set aboard a ship that was designed for three people and, it turns out, must accommodate four—is a little boring.

  • Pagels, 29, tweeted that he “had to bike through a roundabout over a highway to get my Covid jab.”

  • You’d be stuck there at the entrance to a roundabout forever.

  • I saw two bodies on the center island of a traffic roundabout last week—they were still there two hours later.

  • It would be an awfully complicated and roundabout way of garnering Heisman goodwill.

  • As rebel cars circled a roundabout, Shabiha gunmen opened fire.

  • The people in the Pearl Roundabout were not deterred by lack of international solidarity.

  • I have no idea what's next," said activist Nadine Wahab, as she stood in the roundabout, called the "medan.

  • But this is an ancient and roundabout process, and may, as it sometimes has done, terminate in failure.

  • Suppose we go first to the market, and then in a roundabout way to the Botanical Gardens.

  • "It does seem rather a roundabout way of rejoining," Terence said, with a smile.

  • "Well, I've agreed to stand for Harsh," said Nick with a roundabout transition.

  • For the moment a Sabbath calm hung over the wrecked town and over the country roundabout; all was as peaceful as a Quaker meeting.

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