roundabout
迂回
definition
noun
a close-fitting, waist-length jacket worn by men and boys.
adjective
we need to take a roundabout route to throw off any pursuit
not following a short direct route; circuitous.
translation of 'roundabout'
noun
环状交叉路,
拐弯抹角,
弯路
adjective
隐晦,
迂,
迂回,
委
example
My chief of staff selected this 'roundabout' route to throw the news media off our trail.
However, privileged access to positive externalities is merely a 'roundabout' way of saying that opportunities are unequal.
Rather than just saying this directly, Thai people tend to go the 'roundabout' route.
It was a 'roundabout' apology but I took what I could.
Letters from relatives on the Continent became a rarity; those that did reach British shores had usually travelled a 'roundabout' route via neutral nations.
Li smiled, acknowledging that his 'roundabout' dialogue had been recognised, unwound and interpreted.
It slowly dawned on me that this was what he was trying to determine, in his 'roundabout' way: whether I liked the boy-leader or not.
Well, that must be why we took the 'roundabout' route tonight.
This is his extremely 'roundabout' way of saying that he wasn't waiting for some kind of rock revival to make his comeback; if anything, he's reacting against it.
I trudged down a 'roundabout' route to the hut, my head down, a desperate desire to cry in my eyes.
In a 'roundabout' way, I did answer his question with a ‘no.’
Wendy spent the next few minutes explaining what went on over the weekend in 'roundabout' and, shall we say, not totally accurate terms.
In a 'roundabout' way we come back to the problem I had with it.
This essay will suggests in 'roundabout' ways, that this could be as difficult for ‘them’ as for ‘us’.
Anna checked out the window again just to make sure that they weren't taking some really 'roundabout' route to the school.
I had watched from the Citadel as the procession made its way on a 'roundabout' route through the streets of Mainport.
This is only a 'roundabout' way of saying that the score for the film sounded like elevator muzak.
Congestion may also be heavier on some routes into town, particularly on more direct roads, than on other routes, such as 'roundabout' routes through neighborhood and city streets.
In fact, James's essay on habit may be read as a 'roundabout' critique of late nineteenth-century aestheticism, a movement closely related to a modernism of heightened sensory experience.
There was still a small chance they might be discovered - very small since they were taking a very 'roundabout' route - but there was still that chance.
Anyway, this is just a 'roundabout' way of saying that, while I'm personally delighted to be here, I also appreciate the larger gesture that the invitation represents.
They'd never actually done any of the sorts of things suggested in the letter, although she had brought the subject up, in a 'roundabout' way.
That's what I've been trying to get to in my 'roundabout' way.
She decided not to take the route through the village but to walk the 'roundabout' way along the forest's edge in order to not having to see the horror any more.
She was having such fun, so much that she all but forgot that Terel was following her on her 'roundabout' joyride against the wind.
I guess I took a 'roundabout' route to it unconsciously.
It's clear that he is locked in his own world now, from his careful - and almost always 'roundabout' - way of answering questions to the faint, humbled tone with which he speaks.
An imaginative translator must explore ways, even if 'roundabout' , to recreate the effect of the original in the language into which it is translated.
Taking the 'roundabout' route means the train can stop at a dozen additional railway stations in Hubei Province.
He does not explicate this 'roundabout' reference to circumcision.
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