| 词汇 | verbiage |
| 释义 | verbiage noun[ U ] formaldisapprovinguk /ˈvɜː.bi.ɪdʒ/ us /ˈvɝː.bi.ɪdʒ/ language that is very complicated and contains a lot of unnecessary words: 冗词，废话，赘语 His explanation was wrapped up in so much technical verbiage that I couldn't understand it.他的解释充斥着太多晦涩累赘的专业术语，我根本就听不懂。 Difficult to understand abstruse abstrusely ambiguity ambiguous ambiguously esoteric esoterically fathomless fathomlessly garble it's all Greek to meidiom labyrinthine lost non-intuitive obscurely unintuitively unreadable verbosely verbosity wasted on someoneidiom Examples of verbiageverbiage She seems to have been so intoxicated by her own verbiage as not to realize that, in the end, she says virtually nothing about gender. This is all excess verbiage whose only function is to treat adults as children. All their post-modernist, post-structuralist verbiage serves to absolve the editors from ever clarifying - or themselves getting to understand - what musical problems actually consist of, let alone finding answers. As the author helpfully explains in the next sentence, that just means that in principle they can be measured - in other words, the previous verbiage was redundant ! She records three distinct uses of "to that extent", all meaning different things and looking very much like mere padding or verbiage, none corresponding to the logic of standard use. The answer is obvious although it has sometimes been shrouded in verbiage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There should be an attempt to reduce this verbiage to hard cash. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We need to replace the long sentences, the verbiage and the countless double negatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any electors who were confronted with such ridiculous gobbledegook and verbiage would have every reason to question why they should vote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Never has there been such an enormous amount of verbiage to create simply a gravy bowl for such a small number of people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is how to cut through the verbiage and the posturing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am against pretentious verbiage because it creates confusion and muddle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it necessary for us to have so much verbiage in our legislation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English When we strip away the verbiage of today's statement, we find very little change. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are no safeguards to consumers that are effective; those which are given are mere verbiage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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