circumlocution [ˌsɜ:rkəmləˈkju:ʃn]

例句:

• The move to windy circumlocution shows no signs of slowing.
  来自THETIMES
• " The wife of your father's brother " is a circumlocution for " your aunt ".
  “ 你爸爸的兄弟的妻子 ” 是 “ 你婶子 ” 的累赘的说法.
  
• He is a master at circumlocution.
  他讲话很会兜圈子.
  
• It was always when you most wanted a direct answer that Greenfield came up with a circumlocution.
  总是在你最想得到一个直截了当的回答时，格林菲尔德却要绕上十八个弯。
  
• On the contrary, he lamented, as far as the media are concerned, circumlocution has become the order of the day.
  来自THETIMES
• Ideas that could be expressed only as a clunky circumlocution in English can be collapsed into a single word in Ithkuil.
  来自NEWYORKER