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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
  当然，我这段莫名其妙的杂碎汤带来的是最冗长的自我介绍。所以现在长话短说：能遇见您是我天大的荣幸，您可以叫我“V”。
• 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。
• The speaker lost himself in verbiage.
  那个人演讲叠床架屋兴头十足。
• 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。
• 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。
• Slough off unimportant verbiage.
  删除无关紧要的空话。