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Перевод: circumlocution
[существительное] многоречивость ; уклончивые речи; околичности ; иносказание; парафраз ; парафраза
Тезаурус:
- There is also a tendency towards circumlocution, particularly in combinations of a verb with an abstract object, as in take leave, sound that note, and dropped the cynical confession.
- The tradition of an imperial unity of the British Isles was supported by statements in charters of pre-Conquest kings, in which the kings called themselves with varying degrees of circumlocution "emperors of this British world".
- Prefer the single word to the circumlocution.
- The digesta version, contrary to its usual practice, seems to have struck out more unnecessary detail than the responsa , such as the lengthy description of the debts and the circumlocution referring to the time the will was made.
- Done in the Jamesian manner, Jim would doubtless find himself credited with psychological subtleties and complexities of which he is quite unaware; but still one might hope that the writer would succeed in suggesting the highly distinctive flavour of his talk, his inimitable way of retailing a diverting anecdote leisurely and with a modicum of circumlocution, from which in due time the point of the story is sure to emerge.
- The front-runner has kept his ill-starred record, in Brown's words, as "the scandal-a-week candidate" with his recent admission after years of slippery circumlocution that he smoked marijuana when a student at Oxford 22 years ago.
- In Book I, Chapter 3, Section 3 of his A System of Logic (written before he had decided that a quality is simply a sensation regarded in a certain relation) he distinguishes between a sensation and a quality, a distinction which, he feels, may be missed because we can seldom refer to the sensation otherwise than by a circumlocution, for example, by reference to the quality, as when we call a sensation "the sensation of white".
- Russians are robust and tend to avoid circumlocution; he therefore said the figures were wrong and the American was a liar.
- The inventive engineer, Daniel Doyce, rebuffed at home by the Circumlocution Office, accepts an invitation to go to St Petersburg and "there had done very well indeed - never better".
- (3) Prefer the single word to the circumlocution.
- It is possible in theory to encode all the relevant information in an English translation, for example by using a circumlocution such as "he and I but not you" for an exclusive "we", but this kind of detail would be too cumbersome in most contexts.
- The circumlocution obscured the compelling fact that the earlier Bill had been abandoned two months after the outbreak of war with Germany.
- It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement, or conveyed the bad news, whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about.
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