roundabout

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roundabout 是什么意思

中文释义

a. 迂回的, 委婉的

n. 迂回路线

英文释义

n a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island

n a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement

s marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct

s deviating from a straight course

roundabout 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 roundabout 在自然语境里怎么用：

Those early months were a crash course in the roundabout bureaucracy of the nonprofit world.

—— Are do-gooders an inferior class, consigned to drudgery? Elizabeth Anderson traces the contours of the progressive work ethic

They try, in their roundabout faerie way, to be helpful, because I don’t know what I’m doing.

—— The year’s weirdest game is hard to explain and even harder to put down

Starting an expensive professional golf league was a roundabout way to launder the reputation of a violent autocrat.

—— LIV Golf Is Dying of Boredom

To put it plainly: The red wolf was wiped out intentionally, in a roundabout effort to keep it alive.

—— Colossal Biosciences said it cloned red wolves. Is it for real?

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