ambages

英 [æm'beɪdʒiːz] 美 [æm'beɪdʒiːz]

• 拐弯抹角

英英释义

Noun:

1. (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action

经典引文

• If Calkas lede us with ambages, That is to seyn, with dowble wordes slye.

  出自： Chaucer

• Without more ambages, Sir, I have..consented to marry him.

  出自： A. Behn

• Popular literature is happiest when it can evade the ambages of language and fulfil itself in some unequivocal visual form like the cinema.

  出自：Observer