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单词 circuitous
释义
cir·cu·i·tous (sər-kyĭ-təs)
adj.
1. Being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course: took a circuitous route to avoid the accident site.
2. Characterized by indirectness, evasiveness, or complexity, as in action or language: a circuitous method of inquiry; a circuitous argument.

[From Medieval Latin circuitōsus, from Latin circuitus, a going around; see CIRCUIT.]

cir·cui·tous·ly adv.
cir·cui·ty, cir·cui·tous·ness n.
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