说约翰境况不佳是委婉的说法，他其实已经身无分文。
Saying that John was badly off is to put it mildly. He was indeed penniless.
“很少”这里都是委婉的说法。
其实，这是一种委婉的说法。
这是我一种委婉的说法…
作为一个语言的成份，英国和中国委婉的说法已经遭遇时代和文化的变化。
As a component of language, the English and Chinese euphemisms have undergone the changes of times and cultures.
如果雇主正要解雇你，提出让你提前退休，或用其它委婉的说法解雇你，你可能很难马上找到其它工作。
If your employer is letting you go, offering early retirement or using another euphemism for firing you, it may be hard to find another job immediately.
动物福利事业团体称之为对狩猎的战利品一种委婉的说法，而狩猎是肯尼亚在1977年就被禁止了的。
Animal-welfare groups call that a euphemism for trophy hunting, which Kenya banned in 1977.
“直觉”并非某种委婉的说法，腹中的那种张力使你明确的表示出你真实所想，这超越了所有理论和依据。
"Gut feeling" is not just a euphemism. Tension in the abdomen speaks volumes about how you truly feel about something, beyond all arguments and rationales.
他只是说，现在需要一种“多样化”的全球货币体系，一种很委婉的说法，表示美元的支配地位应该减弱。
He also said there was a need to "diversify" the global currency system, a tactful way of saying the dollar's sway should diminish.
“沉重的代价”指的是新年前夜发生在上海的踩踏事件，导致36人身亡。 “民族素质”是一种委婉的说法。
The "high price" refers to the stampede in Shanghai on New Year's Eve in which 36 people died.
坚守预算——甚至许多理财规划师都忌讳这个词语，他们更倾向于委婉的说法“支出计划”——如同节食一般，貌似太过了。
Sticking to a budget - a dirty word even among many financial planners, who prefer the more euphemistic "spending plan" - feels too much like dieting.
Vintage这个词是从葡萄酒酿酒的术语中借用过来的(原本意思是“陈年的”)，在这里是对“旧”衣服的一个委婉的说法，更具古典气质。
The word vintage is copied from its use in wine terminology, as a more elegant-seeming euphemism for "old" clothes.
繁琐，就是指冗长委婉的说法。 例如，把贫民窟，说成经济落后地区；把收垃圾的，说成废物处理人员； 把垃圾倾倒处，说成废物分解中心。
Clutter is the ponderous euphemism that turns a slum into a depressed socioeconomic area, garbage collectors into waste disposal personnel and the town dump into the volume reduction unit.
“用户费”不过是政治家对“税款”的委婉说法。
如今“边缘”一词已不再是缩写、而是“南部”的委婉说法。
"Peripheral" is now no longer a shorthand term, but a euphemism for "southern".
工作前景很糟糕，她说她什么也做不了，“对家庭也一样”(家政服务的委婉说法)。
Job prospects were grim though, and she said she'd take anything, even "working for a family" (a euphemism for domestic service).
所以，这个州很可能无法履行银行债务（用流行的委婉说法，它要进行债务“重组”），贷款得不到偿还的银行可能因此被拖垮。
So the state probably would default on its bank debt (“restructure” the debt is the current euphemism), and this might bring down the banks that had made the loans that were now in default.
今年，她们家没有办法种植主要的农作物高粱，莎丽拉说到，而且她们家的水牛都“不健康”了--对于挨饿的一种委婉说法。
The family has been unable to plant its main sorghum crop, she says, and their buffaloes are becoming “diseased”, a euphemism for starving.
我们也应该十分清楚所谓“部分准备金仓储制度”不过是对欺诈和侵占行为的一种委婉说法。
It should also be clear that "fractional-reserve warehousing" is only a euphemism for fraud and embezzlement.
对于绝大多数生育的妇女- - -和绝大多数观看她们的男人- - -这些“感觉”是一种对痛苦的委婉说法。
For the majority of women who have given birth - and most of the men who have watched them - these "sensations" are a euphemism for pain.
后来做烧烤的告诉他这个秘密：点“白色牛排”(猪肉在以色列的委婉说法)，书名也源自这个启发。
Then a grill man told him the secret: order "the white steak," a common euphemism for pork in Israel, and one of the inspirations for the name of the book.
后来做烧烤的告诉他这个秘密：点“白色牛排”（猪肉在以色列的委婉说法），书名也源自这个启发。
Then a grill man told him the secret: order “the white steak,” a common euphemism for pork in Israel, and one of the inspirations for the name of the book.
英语里，死的委婉说法超过200个。
There are over 200 euphemisms for death in the English language.
雷蒙德先生对提前退休的解释是他想回家享天伦之乐，但这种说法通常只是一个被排挤的人为了免于尴尬的委婉托词罢了。
Mr Reinemund's explanation for retiring early, that he wants to spend more time with his family, is often a euphemism to spare the embarrassment of someone forced out.
雷蒙德先生对提前退休的解释是他想回家享天伦之乐，但这种说法通常只是一个被排挤的人为了免于尴尬的委婉托词罢了。
Mr Reinemund's explanation for retiring early, that he wants to spend more time with his family, is often a euphemism to spare the embarrassment of someone forced out.
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