elliptical
椭圆形
definition
adjective
an elliptical lyrical style
(of speech or writing) using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand.
translation of 'elliptical'
adjective
简练,
椭圆的,
省咯的
example
He appears to be shuffling the decks in an 'elliptical' power move.
Cells are oval or 'elliptical' in shape, with the maximum width of the cell at about the midpoint of its length.
This is not an easy task because of Knight's 'elliptical' writing style.
Throughout time, there has been a continual change in the eccentricity of the 'elliptical' orbit.
To come to understand the grounds for this last rather 'elliptical' claim, we must consider the logical status of ‘God is good.’
Watching it now it seems even stranger that its oblique characters and 'elliptical' , alien scenes of remote mountain-town malaise managed to hypnotise so many people for two series.
The writing may be a bit 'elliptical' , but it's fun, which most food columns tend not to be.
The elephant's road to freedom links up with a city dweller making a hard choice in a treacherous world, and in Sommers's hands, it all makes 'elliptical' sense.
The construction ‘the shiraz impresses’ seems to be 'elliptical' , with an implied object complement that is not expressed, rather than being a genuinely intransitive verb.
Frost's text at times verges on the obtuse - her language and often convoluted and 'elliptical' form of writing may well daunt the less academic reader.
Glossy deep green oval or 'elliptical' leaves grow up to 18 inches long and 5 inches wide.
The north face of the building is concave, completing the 'elliptical' pattern that begins in the courtyard.
If you look closely, you can see my chainrings aren't just oval or 'elliptical' as others have been, but is elliptical in three dimensions.
That is a phrase which, in our respectful submission, is also apt to mislead, it being an 'elliptical' noun phrase.
He noted that if the bob was drawn back and released then it followed an 'elliptical' path, and moreover the major axis rotated in the direction of revolution exactly as did the apsides of the moon's orbit.
Newton favoured comets having parabolic orbits, but Halley believed that 'elliptical' orbits might exist.
For two bodies, the solution is easy: the two bodies move around each other in 'elliptical' orbits - or follow parabolic or hyperbolic paths in some special cases.
He had achieved this by the time he was eighteen but at this stage he did not know even that the moon and planets described 'elliptical' orbits.
He guessed that the original cutting stylus was defective and so he tried a custom-made reproducing stylus, instead of the usual conical or 'elliptical' styli.
I know about than the preposition vs. than the introducer of 'elliptical' clauses, but this example took me (intuitively, not analytically) aback.
No, what puzzled us was Chuck Colson's 'elliptical' logic and weird similes.
Its 'elliptical' paraboloid shape was selected because it could be easily described mathematically, simplifying both design and construction.
At times, 'elliptical' speech or writing is so concise that listeners and readers must supply missing elements through guesswork or special knowledge, and if they cannot, they fail to understand.
In each case, 'elliptical' writing conveys too little.
They are often 'elliptical' in shape, but sometimes possess hexagonal outlines.
Small ovoid and 'elliptical' silver baskets were made in the neoclassical style to hold sugar as part of the tea service.
These are spiral, 'elliptical' , barred spiral and irregular.
The Earth's orbit changes from being almost a perfect circle to its 'elliptical' form and then back again.
But his account is delivered in the same 'elliptical' , insiders' fashion as the speeches that follow, and so requires as much exegesis and commentary as anything else in the book.
It never strives to say anything in particular, and the backroom drama-what there is of it anyway-is so brief, oblique and 'elliptical' that it merely provides an air of impromptu, on-the-fly context for the dance numbers.
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