roundabout
迂回曲折,迂回,迂回式,绕行
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Definitions
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- : circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- : cut circularly at the bottom; having no tails, train, or the like.
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- : 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.
But this is an ancient and roundabout process, and may, as it sometimes has done, terminate in failure.
Suppose we go first to the market, and then in a way to the Botanical Gardens.