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n.委婉语¹⁰⁰复数euphemisms形容词euphemistic副词euphemistically名词euphemist
会面与会谈其他语言学语言，说话
Noun:
an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh委婉语或委婉词是一种修辞手段，即采取婉转的、温和的、可接受的词语来表达某些不大好听的内容。例汉语里的“死”字，是个不大好听的字眼，人们创造了许多生动的委婉语来取代“死”这个令人厌恶的字眼，如：“逝世”、“去世”、“过世”、“老了”、“见马克思去”、“交粮本”等等。英语里也避开“die”这个字眼，而说“He went to his reward.”
Euphemism是从希腊语来的，eu，意思是“好”，phemi意思是“说”，合起来则是“说得好听点儿”。委婉语的宗旨正是这样。钱博士eu好的+phem说话-ism性质/状态做法→好的说话方式⇒委婉说法，委婉词
词根eu-好来自希腊语，在动词词根前面相当于副词，在名词词根前面相当于形容词。词根phem-说话来自希腊语。它和希腊词根pha-说、phon-声音，发音、拉丁词根fa-说以及日耳曼词根ban-宣布最终都源自原始印欧语词根*bha-2说，宣布，辅音ph-f-b相通。反义词为dysphemism粗直语。GRE红宝书eu好, phem出现－以好的语言出现－委婉的说法
eu 优 + phem 说，phrase 句，语
eu好+phem出现+i sm→以好的语言出现 →委婉的说法GRE难词记忆euphemism → eu好 的+phem=speech 讲话-ism性质/状态→讲好听的话→委婉的说法词根记忆eu好+ phem出现+ ism → 以好的语言出现 ⇒委婉的说法词根记忆eu=good 好+phem-ism性质/状态=讲好话近义词 synonym近义词code word代码字,码字…understatement轻描淡写weasel word滑头话, 含糊其辞的推脱…反义词 dysphemism语粗直语
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用作名词“Pass away” is aeuphemismfor “die”.“过世”是“死”的委婉语。
Euphemism is a very common and complicated linguistic phenomenon.委婉语是一种十分常见而又非常复杂的语言现象。noun.nice way of saying something
同义词 circumlocution,delicacy,floridness,grandiloquence,inflation,pomposity,pretense,purism
circumlocutionnoun indirect speech
beating around the bush,circumambages,diffuseness,discursiveness,gassiness,indirectness,periphrase,periphrasis,pleonasm,prolixity,roundabout,tautology,verbal evasion,verbality,verbiage,wordiness
code wordnoun secret word
code book,code name,euphemism,password,secret language,secret message,secret writing,watchword
figure of speechnoun non-literal communication
adumbration,allegory,alliteration,allusion,analogue,analogy,anaphora,anticlimax,antistrophe,antithesis,aposiopesis,apostrophe,asyndeton,bathos,comparison,conceit,device,echoism,ellipsis,euphemism,euphuism,exaggeration,expression,flourish,flower,hyperbole,image,imagery,irony,litotes,malapropism,manner of speaking,metaphor,metonymy,onomatopoeia,ornament,oxymoron,parable,paradox,parallel,personification,proteron,rhetoric,sarcasm,satire,simile,stylistic device,synecdoche,trope,tropology,turn of phrase,understatement,way of speaking
tergiversationnoun equivocation
ambiguity,amphiboly,casuistry,coloring,con,cop out,cover,cover-up,deceit,deception,deceptiveness,delusion,dissimulation,distortion,double entendre,double meaning,double talk,doubtfulness,duplicity,equivocality,equivoque,euphemism,evasion,fallacy,fib,fibbing,hedge,hedging,lie,line,lying,misrepresentation,prevarication,quibbling routine,runaround,shuffle,shuffling,song,song and dance,sophistry,speciousness,spuriousness,stall,stonewall,waffle,weasel word George Bush assembled coalitions of the willing, a euphemism for his failure to get the UN to back his invasion of Iraq in 2003.
2003年，乔治·布什召集自愿联盟其实就是委婉地表达了他在未能得到联合国支持后准备入侵伊拉克的想法。 yeeyan
“ Gut feeling” is not just a euphemism. Tension in the abdomen speaks volumes about how you truly feel about something, beyond all arguments and rationales.
“直觉”并非某种委婉的说法，腹中的那种张力使你明确的表示出你真实所想，这超越了所有理论和依据。 yeeyan
“I’d see a few friends or race past a blind pig,” she said, using the euphemism for Prohibition- era drinking establishments.
“我看见些朋友和族人路过私酒铺，”她这是委婉地提及禁酒时代的饮酒场所。 yeeyan
I said I liked“ open-minded” girls, a euphemism in Chinese for sexually liberated women, which was greeted with much laughter.
我说我喜欢“开放的”女孩，在中国这是对性解放女性的一种委婉说法，招来了很多笑声。 yeeyan
If your employer is letting you go, offering early retirement or using another euphemism for firing you, it may be hard to find another job immediately.
如果雇主正要解雇你，提出让你提前退休，或用其它委婉的说法解雇你，你可能很难马上找到其它工作。 yeeyan
It should also be clear that “ fractional-reserve warehousing” is only a euphemism for fraud and embezzlement.
我们也应该十分清楚所谓“部分准备金仓储制度”不过是对欺诈和侵占行为的一种委婉说法。 yeeyan
It's kind of a euphemism, really.
其实，这是一种委婉的说法。 yeeyan
Job prospects were grim though, and she said she'd take anything, even“working for a family” a euphemism for domestic service.
工作前景很糟糕，她说她什么也做不了，“对家庭也一样”家政服务的委婉说法。 yeeyan
Mr Reinemund's explanation for retiring early, that he wants to spend more time with his family, is often a euphemism to spare the embarrassment of someone forced out.
雷蒙德先生对提前退休的解释是他想回家享天伦之乐，但这种说法通常只是一个被排挤的人为了免于尴尬的委婉托词罢了。 ecocn
Savant syndrome, then, is a case where the politically correct euphemism“ differently abled” has real meaning.
那么，政治上将学者综合症委婉地成为“与众不同”，还是有一番道理。 ecocn
So the state probably would default on its bank debt“ restructure” the debt is the current euphemism, and this might bring down the banks that had made the loans that were now in default.
所以，这个州很可能无法履行银行债务用流行的委婉说法，它要进行债务“重组”，贷款得不到偿还的银行可能因此被拖垮。 yeeyan
The answer hinges on how far private creditors who have lent to the Greek government can be made to“ participate”, a euphemism for picking up some of the bill.
答案取决于向希腊提供信贷的私人债权人将在多大程度上被迫“参与”救助计划——为这次危机的部分恶果买单的委婉说法。 ecocn
The Treasury, of course, would never use“ nationalization” in public; it would invent some nice euphemism.
当然，财政部绝不会傻到使用“国有化”这个敏感的词 ，肯定会发明一些委婉的说法。 yeeyan
The word“ savings”, by contrast, which is Mr Osborne's preferred euphemism for cuts, features prominently in the middle.
相比之下，奥斯本先生喜欢用“节省”来委婉地表示“削减”，显眼地陈列在中间。 ecocn
The family has been unable to plant its main sorghum crop, she says, and their buffaloes are becoming“ diseased”, a euphemism for starving.
她说，整个家族无法种植高粱，他们的水牛也开始变得“病怏怏”的——“病怏怏”是饥饿的委婉说法。 ecocn
The euphemism is hard to mistake for a compliment.
这种委婉的说话真的很难让人理解为是一种恭维。 yeeyan
There are also the good- old standbys, behaviour changea euphemism for less promiscuous sex and condom use. Here, the data are equivocal.
还有两种老而好的备选方法，就是改变行为少乱交的委婉说法和使用安全套。 ecocn
Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question- begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
如此一来，这种语言不得不大部地由委婉语、让人纳闷和完全云遮雾罩的模糊构成。 yeeyan
Unfortunately, all of your suggestions of what you write on it are bad. “In Transition” is too blatant and too pretentious a euphemism for unemployed.
遗憾的是，你有关名片内容的所有建议都很糟糕。对于失业者而言，“过渡期”这个委婉语太过刺眼也太过狂妄。 blog.sina.com.cn |