circuitous
circuitous 英 [səˈkju:ɪtəs] 美 [sərˈkjuɪtəs]
adj. 迂曲的；绕行的；迂回线路的
- Circuitous means indirect or roundabout. If you're in a hurry to get to the hospital where your wife is having a baby, you want to take the straightest, fastest way, not a circuitous one!
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- adj. 迂曲的；绕行的；迂回线路的
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1. At best, it is a very circuitous mechanism.
它至多算是一个非常迂回的途径。
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2. One is the author's capacity to lay out a complex argument, which requires the reader to study and reread, following a circuitous course of reasoning.
一个被展开的复杂论点需要读者去不断地研究和回读,只有通过这种迂回曲折的推理过程，论点才能被理解。
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3. The advantages of non-profit status are few, beyond less circuitous access to certain sources of funds.
非营利的状态的好处是几乎不用迂回就可以直接获得一些资金来源。
- circuitous (adj.) "going round in a circuit, indirect," 1660s, from Medieval Latin circuitus "full of roundabout ways," from Latin circuitus "a going round" (see circuit (n.)). Related: Circuitously; circuitousness.
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