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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 speaker lost himself in verbiage.
  那个人演讲叠床架屋兴头十足。
• 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。
• 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。
• Second, positive attitude is created through the verbiage.
  第二，在文本中生成积极的态度。
• 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。