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

• Diverging from the profit to discuss enterprises 'value is all empty verbiage. How to promote enterprise's value while creating customer's value is an awkward problem that enterprises generally face.
  如何实现在创造顾客价值的同时也提升企业自身价值，这是企业普遍面临的两难问题。
• 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。
• Use concise military verbiage-G.S.Patton.
  使用简明军事用语&巴顿。
• Second, positive attitude is created through the verbiage.
  第二，在文本中生成积极的态度。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• To measure some of the more significant verbiage, a minimum length of10 is required for the word to be graphed.
  要计算最常见的用语，单词的长度至少为10才能生成图像。
• 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。