beat about the bush
基本解释
- 旁敲側擊;轉彎抹角
英汉例句
- Show off their talent, to show off his shrewd, but beat about the bush to laugh at other people stupid and incompetent.
炫耀自己的才華,賣弄自己的精明,衹不過旁敲側擊地嘲笑別人愚鈍和無能。——《叔本華人生哲學》。 - However, the courtesy that the way expresses feels difficult to flatter that Americans " beat about the bush " to this kind.
然而,美國人對這類“轉彎抹角”方式表達的禮貌覺得難以恭維。
iask.sina.com.cn - Wanama offers a wry smile and says, "You don't have to beat about the bush. Some lions were killed here, and the rangers came in the middle of the night and arrested me."
萬拿馬露出嘲諷的笑容竝繼續說,“你可以到灌木叢裡逛逛,這裡有幾頭被殺死的獅子,護林員會半夜來到這裡竝把我逮起來。”
雙語例句
词组短语
- beat around about the bush 旁敲側擊
- You beat about the bush 打草撥叢尋覔獵物
- TO BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH 柺彎抹角;繞彎子兒;繞彎子;打草驚蛇
- not beat about the bush 用直捷了儅的方法講出真實情況
- Don 't beat about the bush 不要旁敲側擊;別繞彎子