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1 These are challenging times for indie booksellers, and Kaplan has trod a circuitous path to success.

2 She endured the stares of the middle-class teacher’s pets who looked down on her for the circuitous route that got her there.

3 Creepy, too, because on retracing my steps I find that the main exit is closed, which means taking a circuitous route through a maze of underground walkways.

4 It's not that actors of color don't break through but that the journey is often longer and more circuitous.

5 Stroll along the circuitous walking paths that curl around the gorgeous gardens’ grassy slopes and placid ponds, keeping an eye out for the majestic resident great blue heron.

6 After a circuitous career traveling from popular to cult status, she can use it in different contexts and with different connotations.

7 Whether a star went literal with garden inspirations or explored a more circuitous style path with their Met Gala attire, the night’s best looks shared a common thread of elegance blended with a splash or ethereal, impeccable tailoring or full-on drama.

8 Crisp and precise in her answers, even if she does not always respond directly to a reporter’s questions, Ms. Psaki, in her speaking style, is a contrast to Mr. Biden and his circuitous folksiness.

9 Sometimes it takes decidedly circuitous routes in planning our demise.

有时候她果断而迂回曲折地筹划对我们的谋杀计划。

10 “But here in Hong Kong, it’s circuitous. There’s a lot of window-shopping, a lot of information gathering, and a lot of talking and meeting people who may or may not get back to you.”

11 Her candidacy embodies the compromises and the qualifications that so frequently make a woman’s route to success more circuitous and perilous than those of her male peers.

12 He takes a circuitous route around the Hub, away from the mass of Exclusion Guards and internees who are still pouring out of the Mess and toward the Midway.

13 The advantages of non-profit status are few, beyond less circuitous access to certain sources of funds.

非营利的状态的好处是几乎不用迂回就可以直接获得一些资金来源。

14 The more circuitous route would be the quickest.

采取比较迂回的路线，可能是捷径。

15 Not many travelers are likely to duplicate Mr. Theroux’s long, circuitous, sometimes difficult route, but reading the book will give them an excellent idea of what lies beyond the safety zone of Old Magnolia South.

16 "It's like a river, if something is blocking the way, it flows somewhere else," said Brontis Jodorowsky of his father's circuitous artistic output.

17 It is something to do with the circuitous nature of Baldwin’s sentences, the way he riffs and waffles and meanders at will.

18 A quietly rebellious teenager, Hume left school at 16 with no qualifications and his route to art school was circuitous and dogged.

19 I can respect the fact that some or many viewers will be alienated or confused or simply bored by the circuitous journey that's required to get to that balcony scene.

20 In fact, art is a quite circuitous route to sharing with people.

1 曲折的

winding devious zigzag tortuous crinkum-crankum indirect oblique meandering sinuous inflectional inflective meandrous

2 绕道

divert detour roundabout devious circuit bypass circuitousness

3 间接

secondary indirect second-hand oblique coded roundabout mediate devious secondhand at second hand overhead collateral evasive backhanded slantendicular slantingdicular remote sinuous glancing indirection bye consequential pre-owned sidelong circular backdoor circumstantial elliptic circumferential

4 拐弯抹角

indirect tortuous backhanded mealy-mouthed indirectly circuitously oblique not in so many words

5 拐弯抹角的

indirect tortuous backhanded mealy-mouthed oblique

6 绕行

circuitously detour circumambulate round circumnavigate diversion doubling reverse revert circuit

7 绕道的

roundabout devious

8 曲折

winding devious twist crinkum-crankum indirect oblique meandering tortuous sinuous inflectional inflective meandrous movement wind node crank inflection tortuosity nodus the ins and outs

9 间接的

secondary indirect second-hand oblique coded roundabout mediate devious secondhand at second hand overhead collateral evasive backhanded slantendicular slantingdicular remote sinuous glancing bye consequential pre-owned sidelong circular backdoor circumstantial elliptic circumferential

10 迂回

indirect round roundabout devious circuitously circular periphrastic circumvolution weave detour bypass compass make a detour make a circuit of periphrasis serpentine wind convolute circumlocutory anfractuous turn wheel doubling indirection circuity oblique ambagious circuit go-around fetch a compass winding tortuous sinuous circumferential meandrous around distantly circularly deviously circumbendibus fetch about fetch around fetch round

11 迂回的

indirect roundabout devious circular periphrastic serpentine convolute circumlocutory anfractuous oblique ambagious winding tortuous sinuous circumferential meandrous