roundabout.
迂回曲折,迂回,迂回式,绕行
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Definitions
adj.adjective · 形容词
- 1.
- ›circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- › cut circularly at the bottom; having no tails, train, or the like.
n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›a short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
- ›British. a merry-go-round.
- ›a circuitous or indirect road, method, etc.
- ›Chiefly British. traffic circle.
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Examples
Drivers approaching the town must slow from 45 mph to 25 mph before entering the first roundabout on the edge of town.
The refugee took a roundabout journey across Europe from Poland to asylum.
That’s a roundabout way of saying that Joe Penna’s Stowaway—set aboard a ship that was designed for three people and, it turns out, must accommodate four—is a little boring.
Pagels, 29, tweeted that he “had to bike through a roundabout over a highway to get my Covid jab.”
You’d be stuck there at the entrance to a roundabout forever.
I saw two bodies on the center island of a traffic roundabout last week—they were still there two hours later.
It would be an awfully complicated and roundabout way of garnering Heisman goodwill.
As rebel cars circled a roundabout, Shabiha gunmen opened fire.
The people in the Pearl Roundabout were not deterred by lack of international solidarity.
I have no idea what's next," said activist Nadine Wahab, as she stood in the roundabout, called the "medan.