| 单词 | circuitous |
| 释义 | circuitous (səʳkjuːɪtəs ) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct. [formal] The cabdriver took them on a circuitous route to the police station. Stuart came into film-making via a circuitous route. Collocations: circuitous path He travelled a circuitous path before bringing big data into the entertainment industry. Times, Sunday Times Flash floods are common in these narrow valleys, and they complicate travel between ridges, often requiring a circuitous path. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet most successful adults got where they are by circuitous paths. Times, Sunday Times It has been a circuitous route from England to his office at the WRU. Times, Sunday Times (2014) It became, by a circuitous route, a bestseller. Times, Sunday Times (2010) My brother dropping it off, after a circuitous route, in a wooded area. Times, Sunday Times (2015) He was still taking this circuitous route to the top of the leaderboard on the 16th with another poor tee shot well to the right. Times, Sunday Times (2016) For a player regularly accused of taking the circuitous route rather too often on the pitch, he is compulsively candid off it. Times, Sunday Times (2012) |
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