John is making a periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion.
约翰正在对陈腐的诗风做迂回冗长的研究。
Most finite verbal forms diachronically derive from nominalizations and periphrastic constructions with auxiliary verbs.
副词,后置词几乎完全都有名词性的,形容词性的或动词性的起源.
Can't have periphrastic showboaters like that telling us what we can and can't write.
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Orang-utan is not the local name, though, it's a European coining in periphrastic Malay.
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