pleonasm

英汉释义

• n.

  1.【语】冗词,冗句,冗言

英英释义

• n.

  1.the use of more words than are necessary to say something

英汉例句

• 1.If you were invited to an academic conference or were trying to impress a potential employer, a bit of pleonasm couldn't hurt.

  假如你被邀请到一个学术讲座或试图给潜在的雇主留下深刻的印象，一点点的赘言无伤大雅。

• 2.Yet the historian who in retrospect speaks of inevitability is not indulging in a pleonasm.

  可是，历史家回想过去而说出「不可避免」，他不是溺爱于使用这句废话。