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

• To sweep away such verbiage should help the victorious prosecution of the war of resistance.
  扫除这些空谈，对于进行胜利的抗日战争，应该是有好处的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Second, positive attitude is created through the verbiage.
  第二，在文本中生成积极的态度。
• Use concise military verbiage-G.S.Patton.
  使用简明军事用语&巴顿。
• It takes account of its audience, offering explanations where requisite, and avoiding specialized jargon and unnecessary verbiage.
  它考虑到了其读者，提供了必要的解释，并避免专业术语和不必要的空话。
• 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。
• Fourth, stress the actual combat and effectiveness of strategy, the purpose to regard strategy implementation as planning and implementing to the business planning to be had, thus avoided the cavity of planning, just empty verbiage;
  突出战略的实战性和可操作性，把战略实施作为规划的目的并落实到业务规划上，从而避免了规划的空洞、言之无物；