wordiness

1 For example, I submitted a few of my recent columns, only to discover that, as far as wordiness, I am second only to Melville.

2 They start with an imaginary equality of force, of fulness, and variety; but forthwith rush into a strange higgle-piggledy, helter-skelter sort of imposing wordiness, equally bewildering and stupifying to their readers and themselves.

3 His wordiness is of all his faults the most seductive and the most conspicuous, and procured for him even in his lifetime the epithet of Asiatic.

4 Morgan recreated the groggy morning voice as Johnson produced overdubs, though that wordy chorus presented a challenge.

5 Most of the album’s songs are no wordier than that.

6 The exigencies of the Chinese language make a literal translation often scarcely endurable or possible, while a lengthened paraphrase gives a wordiness that is not a true reflection of the epigrammatic pithiness of the original.

7 Often prestige television like this – expansive, expensive and ambitious – falls back on its wordiness, and Chernobyl is certainly well-written enough to justify that.

8 And his weight would not really have mattered; his wordiness, however, was beginning to irritate her little by little.

9 To achieve conciseness of your letter-writing, try to keep your sentences short, avoid unnecessary wordiness or repetition, and eliminate excessive details.

要达到你信件写作的简洁，就要努力保持句子简短，避免不必要的多嘴和重复，清除多余的细节。

10 He descants perpetually on virtue, religion, “the good man,” life, death, immortality, eternity—subjects which are apt to give a factitious grandeur to empty wordiness. 

11 Exercise 139 Carelessness in speaking frequently results in wordiness, since the speaker in an effort to be clear or forceful repeats the idea two or three times.

12 Once recorded, the nocturnal episodes were analyzed for such factors as wordiness, silences, tone, politeness and abusive language.

13 The part itself is the most difficult in nature to make tolerable on the stage, its leading characteristic being wordiness.

14 An excess of words for the purpose; wordiness.

冗词，赘语；废话：为了某一意图过多使用词语；冗长。

15 Jeremy Reimer In general, the Lisa OS is quite wordy, probably because Apple hired technical writers.

16 What, forsooth, had I been looking for in the empty wordiness of the book?

17 Steam | Official site Tired of games that bog you down with hours of wordy tutorials to explain their complex mechanics?

18 They could at once eradicate two of the things that cause a part of the evil—the wordiness and the commercial standardization of the story.

19 Mr. Browning was not personally acquainted with either John Sterling or Caroline Fox, and what he knew of the former as a poet did not, to his mind, bear out this marked objection to wordiness.

20 Saying your talk out loud many times in advance also helps you to edit out awkward wordiness.

1 冗长

lengthy voluminous verbose wordy interminable prolix redundancy verbosity prolixity wordish long endless mortal redundant diffuse tiring tiresome long-winded pleonastic longwinded periphrastic lengthily prolixly verboseness verbiage wordage verbalism lengthiness

2 喋喋不休

garrulous garrulously chatter patter jabbering speechifying blabber yak gab clack speechify babble on blab on drone on rattle on

3 啰唆

repetitiousness

4 多言

windy wordy voluble wordily verbiage verbosity