"the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"
同义词: roundabout
"a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"
同义词: devious roundabout
以上来源于: WordNet
ADJ A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct. 迂回的 [正式] [usu ADJ n]
The cabdriver took them on a circuitous route to the police station.
出租车司机绕道把他们带到警察局。
The cabdriver took them on a circuitous route to the police station.
出租车司机绕道把他们带到警察局。
At best, it is a very circuitous mechanism.
它至多算是一个非常迂回的途径。
The route is circuitous and often redundant.
道路是迂回的而且往往是冗长的。
The circuitous, logical route that we had to take in order to arrive at this new sense of Satan's size has everything to do with our status as temporally bound, temporally constrained readers.
我们需要经历一个迂回曲折的逻辑过程,来从新的意义上理解撒旦的高大,和我们目前处在的,作为世俗压制下的读者的地位,有着紧密的联系。
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