ambages

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈam.bɪ.d͡ʒɪz/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution. archaic,plural,plural-only
    — Thus from her cell Cumæan Sibyl sings / Ambiguous ambages, the cloyster rings / With the shrill sound thereof, in most dark strains.
  2. Indirect or roundabout routes or directions. archaic,plural,plural-only
    — Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered.

词汇关系

衍生词
circumambages
相关词
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词源

From Middle English ambages, from Old French ambages (modern French ambages), from Latin ambāges, from ambi- + agere (“to drive”).
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