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

• 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。
• Slough off unimportant verbiage.
  删除无关紧要的空话。
• But when programmers want to write simple test code without all the verbiage involved in a doctest, then test functions are a wonderful way to write.
  但是，如果程序员希望编写简单的测试代码，不愿意考虑doctest涉及的乱七八糟的东西，那么测试函数是很好的方法。
• Second, Attitude theory is adopted to study how positive interactive meaning is realized in the verbiage.
  其次，运用态度理论来分析如何在文字中构建积极的互动意义。
• Third, the image and the verbiage co-instantiate with each other in constructing the interactive meaning.
  第三，图像和文本彼此相互作用，共同构建互动意义。
• It takes account of its audience, offering explanations where requisite, and avoiding specialized jargon and unnecessary verbiage.
  它考虑到了其读者，提供了必要的解释，并避免专业术语和不必要的空话。
• Only by the economic investigation can the advertising writing not be just empty verbiage.
  指出经济调查的成果决定广告写作水平。
• Use concise military verbiage-G.S.Patton.
  使用简明军事用语&巴顿。
• But in China, such patriotic verbiage is also a reminder of times not entirely departed when little other public speech was permitted.
  但在中国，这种爱国主义言论也让人们想起了并不遥远的过去，当时不同看法的公开言论几乎都受到了禁止。