Roundabout

(a.) Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.

(a.) Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.

(n.) A horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round.

(n.) A dance performed in a circle.

(n.) A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.

(n.) A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude.

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• You did not see it because I led you not in the beaten tracks, but through roundabout passages seldom used. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• His usual roundabout manner of going to work proved, on this occasion, to be more roundabout than ever. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I have had some experience, Fosco, of your roundabout ways, and I am not so sure that you won't worm it out of me after all. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Some of our party have gone to England, intending to take a roundabout course and rejoin the vessel at Leghorn or Naples several weeks hence. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Is it necessary for me to use any roundabout phrase? 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Then we tried to get it by all kinds of roundabout ways, but in no case could anybody get them at that office. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But you are not so roundabout, Little Eyes, that I don't notice your answering for Pubsey and Co. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It'll lead in a roundabout manner to your buying damage and waste of Pubsey and Co. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I say to my great relief, because I inferred that Laura must, for some unknown reason, have returned before me by this roundabout way. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It is a roundabout wheedling sort of thing which I should not have credited you with. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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