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”。
• 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。
• Slough off unimportant verbiage.
  删除无关紧要的空话。
• Diverging from the profit to discuss enterprises 'value is all empty verbiage. How to promote enterprise's value while creating customer's value is an awkward problem that enterprises generally face.
  如何实现在创造顾客价值的同时也提升企业自身价值，这是企业普遍面临的两难问题。
• 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。
• Use concise military verbiage-G.S.Patton.
  使用简明军事用语&巴顿。
• A point that has been missed in all the verbiage of recent days is how much her thinking owed to Keith Joseph, the Conservative who helped to put the idea of a genuine free market back on the political agenda.
  近日诸多长篇大论都忽视了一点：撒切尔的思想有多少要归功于基斯•约瑟夫（KeithJoseph）？作为一名保守党员，约瑟夫曾帮助推动真正的自由市场思想重新登上政治议程。
• 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。
• 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。