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

• 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”。
• 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。
• 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。
• The speaker lost himself in verbiage.
  那个人演讲叠床架屋兴头十足。
• Slough off unimportant verbiage.
  删除无关紧要的空话。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。