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

• But lurking beneath the verbiage are two economic realities largely ignored by both political parties.
  然而，长篇大论的背后，潜藏着美国两大政党都几乎忽略了的两个经济现实。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Use concise military verbiage-G.S.Patton.
  使用简明军事用语&巴顿。
• Slough off unimportant verbiage.
  删除无关紧要的空话。