- Verbiage is what it sounds like — a lot of words: verbs, nouns, adjectives and all the other parts of speech. Usually, verbiage means a few too many words — like the excessive verbiage in a legal document.
- 请先登录
- n. 冗词；废话；措辞方式
-
1. “No matter how he stuffs his readers with verbiage, it never amounts to a core of truth, ” he said.
“不管他如何用废话喂饱他的读者，那些话都毫无真实可言，”他说。
-
2. On his first visit to the US, and in his maiden address to the UN general assembly, Gaddafi fully lived up to his reputation for eccentricity, bloody-mindedness and extreme verbiage.
这是卡扎菲首次访问美国，也是他第一次在联大发表演讲；而他的表现也没有辜负他“性情古怪、诚心找茬、废话连篇”的名声。
-
3. Even in little 140-character bites, that's a lot of verbiage.
即使限制在一推140个字,也有很大一部分是废话。
- verbiage (n.) "abundance of words," 1721, from French verbiage "wordiness" (17c.), from Middle French verbier "to chatter," from Old French verbe "word," from Latin verbum "word" (see verb).
- 请先登录
0 个回复