| 釋義 |
拐彎抹角guǎi wān mò jiǎobeat about the bush;circuitous; talk (/speak/write) in a roundabout way
? 脫了赤腳，卷起褲管，蹲在排了水的秧田里拔除雜草的時候，韓培生～地和生祿攀談起來了：……(柳青《創(chuàng)業(yè)史》487)Bare-footed,his pants legs rolled up,Han squatted in the seeding bed from which the water had been released,pulling weeds. With circuitous ques tions he tried to feel Shenglu out.
? 張大嫂覺得沒有～的必要，便一五一十地把剛才采菌子偷聽來的話復述了一遍，……(草明《原動力》157) Mrs Zhang felt there was no need to hide anything,so she told him in detail all that she had overheard when she went to gather mushrooms，…/隔一陣，劉雨生竭力想克服這點，他斷斷續(xù)續(xù)，～，繞到入社和退社的問題上來了。(周立波《山鄉(xiāng)巨變》284) After a while,Liu Yusheng exerted an effort to end this state of affairs;eventually,in halting and roundabout phrases,he got on to the question of the co-operative and her withdrawing from it.
? 另一方面也不喜歡新區(qū)委書記動不動引經(jīng)據(jù)典，說話～的作風。(柳青《銅墻鐵壁》82) Moreover he had been annoyed with the former’s frequent quo tations from political texts and reports and his in direct style of talking.
? 趙玉林把他下晚～，晃晃蕩蕩的心思，一五一十的，都告訴小王。(周立波《暴風驟雨》39) Zhao described to him all the tangle of thoughts that had passed through his mind during the night.
? 飛快地鉆進了僻靜的小胡同，一地朝保定郊區(qū)的劉守廟橋南頭駛?cè)ァ?馮志《敵后武工隊》238) Quickly he slipped into a quiet lane,headed back in the direction they had come and zigzagged towards the south end of Liushoumiao Bridge in Baoding’s suburbs. 拐彎抹角go or travel in a zigzag manner; talk in a roundabout way; beat about the bush 拐彎抹角ɡuǎi wān mò jiǎo道路不平，曲曲折折。比喻說話、作文不直截了當。talk in a roundabout way, hedge, beat around the bush, by indirection |