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Перевод: circumlocution

[существительное]
многоречивость ; уклончивые речи; околичности ; иносказание; парафраз ; парафраза

Тезаурус:

1. 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.
2. 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".
3. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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".
8. Russians are robust and tend to avoid circumlocution; he therefore said the figures were wrong and the American was a liar.
9. 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".
10. (3) Prefer the single word to the circumlocution.
11. 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.
12. The circumlocution obscured the compelling fact that the earlier Bill had been abandoned two months after the outbreak of war with Germany.
13. 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.