periphrasis
英式音标：periphrasis怎么读
美式音标：periphrasis怎么读
periphrasis词义
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n. 迂回说法；折绕
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复数: periphrases;形容词: periphrastic;
中文词源
periphrasis 迂回表达
peri-,在周围，-phrasis,表达，说话，词源同phrase,paraphrase.
periphrasis英文词源
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- periphrasis
- periphrasis: see phrase
- periphrasis (n.)
- 1530s, from Latin periphrasis "circumlocution," from Greek periphrasis, from periphrazein "speak in a roundabout way," from peri- "round about" (see peri-) + phrazein "to express" (see phrase (n.)).