verbiage

英 [ˈvɜːbiɪdʒ]

美 [ˈvɜːrbiɪdʒ]

n.  冗词; 赘语; 晦涩

GRE

BNC.34203 / COCA.28796

牛津词典

noun

• 冗词；赘语；晦涩
  the use of too many words, or of more difficult words than are needed, to express an idea

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 冗词;赘语;废话
  If you refer to someone's speech or writing asverbiage, you are critical of them because they use too many words, which makes their speech or writing difficult to understand.
  1. Stripped of their pretentious verbiage, his statements come dangerously close to inviting racial hatred.
     抛开那些夸大其词的冗词赘语不论，他的言论有挑起种族仇恨的危险。

双语例句

• The speaker lost himself in verbiage.
  那个人演讲叠床架屋兴头十足。
• A point that has been missed in all the verbiage of recent days is how much her thinking owed to Keith Joseph, the Conservative who helped to put the idea of a genuine free market back on the political agenda.
  近日诸多长篇大论都忽视了一点：撒切尔的思想有多少要归功于基斯•约瑟夫（KeithJoseph）？作为一名保守党员，约瑟夫曾帮助推动真正的自由市场思想重新登上政治议程。
• To sweep away such verbiage should help the victorious prosecution of the war of resistance.
  扫除这些空谈，对于进行胜利的抗日战争，应该是有好处的。
• Stripped of their pretentious verbiage, his statements come dangerously close to inviting racial hatred.
  抛开那些夸大其词的冗词赘语不论，他的言论有挑起种族仇恨的危险。
• In the IT industry, developers have generated many innovative ideas; some are used for years before verbiage is invented to describe them.
  在IT行业中，开发人员想到了很多新的创意：有些创意在使用专业词汇对它们进行描述之前已经运用了很多年。
• His characteristic fiction often seems to be constructed as collage& a pasting together of fragments gathered from the chaotic verbiage of American culture.
  他那具有显著特征的小说似乎是拚贴而成的&把来自于美国文化中的冗长混乱的片段聚集在一起，粘贴起来。
• The positive attitude indicated both in the image and the verbiage arouses the viewers 'interest and stimulates their desire to buy.
  图像和文本所表达的积极态度引起观看者兴趣和购买欲。
• Second, positive attitude is created through the verbiage.
  第二，在文本中生成积极的态度。
• He was a more than commonly candid English gentleman in his avowed dislike of the poet's nonsense, verbiage and verse.
  他比一般无偏见的英国绅士更加公然地宣称：他讨厌诗人的言之无物、冗词赘语和咬文嚼字。
• Slough off unimportant verbiage.
  删除无关紧要的空话。