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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Lots of verbiage about why your run-time bots won't work on the destination server.
  关于实时运行组件无法在目的服务器工作的废话。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。