ambages
/am-bey-jeez/US // æmˈbeɪ dʒiz //
氛围,氛围的影响
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Archaic.
- : winding, roundabout paths or ways.
Examples
Its origin is involved in obscurity: but may it not be a corruption of the Latin ambages, or the singular ablative ambage?
Give me your hand, and answer me without ambages, or ambiguities.
Après l'exposé, Arsay entra alors carrément dans le vif de la discussion et posa le problème sans ambages, dans son vrai jour.
Peter begins to beat about the bush (discurrere per ambages), and declares it to be heretical to quote an infidel like Merlin.
Longa est injuria, longæ ambages; but the story rests on the evidence of independent witnesses.
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