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单词 euphemistic
释义
euphemistic
jfəmɪstɪk
ADJ-GRADED [usually ADJ n] 委婉的 Euphemistic language uses polite, pleasant, or neutral words and expressions to refer to things which people may find unpleasant, upsetting, or embarrassing to talk about, for example sex, the human body, or death. 委婉的
  • ...a euphemistic way of saying that someone has been lying.

    说某人一直在撒谎的委婉说法

SYN polite, alternative, substitute, genteel
euphemistically
  • ...political prisons, called euphemistically 're-education camps'.

    被委婉称作再教育营的政治监狱

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