| 釋義 |
periphrasis /pa'nfrosis; pa'nfrasis/ n (pl -ases) /-asi: z; -azsiz/ roundabout way of speaking; circumlocution; (gram) using an auxiliary word in place of an inflected form, eg 'It does work' for 'It works', 'the word of God' for 'God's word'. 紆回的說法; 繞圈子的陳述; (文法) 紆說法 (用助動詞代替字尾的變化，如用 ’It does work 代售 'It works, the word of God ，代替， God，s word，) 。periphrastic /.pen'fraestik; ypera'frasstik/ adj of ~. 紆回的; 轉(zhuǎn)専四角的; 用紆說法表示的。 |