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单词 circumambulation
释义 circumambulation|ˌsɜːkəmæmbjuːˈleɪʃən|
[f. as prec. + -ation.]
Walking round or about; fig. beating about the bush, indirect process.
1606Wily Beguiled in Hazl. Dodsley IX. 321 Out of the profound circumambulation of my supernatural wit.1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 245 There are Horses so instructed, that they can stay themselves in their speediest course upon an instant, without any circumambulation.1794Godwin Cal. Williams 250, I was little disposed to unnecessary circumambulation.1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. vi, He..begins a perambulation and circumambulation of the terraqueous Globe.
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