"Roundabout" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yū huí roundabout route / circuitous / tortuous / to outflank / indirect / roundabout
 huán dǎo roundabout (traffic island) / around an island (trip etc)
 tuō tà dilatory / sluggish / muddled / roundabout
 wěi to entrust / to cast aside / to shift (blame etc) / to accumulate / roundabout / winding / dejected / listless / committee member / council / end / actually / certainly
 yū qū circuitous / tortuous / roundabout
 yū huǎn dilatory / slow in movement / roundabout
线 qū xiàn curve / curved line / indirect / in a roundabout way
 rào dào to go by a roundabout route / to take a detour / (medicine or civil engineering) bypass
 wān lù winding road / roundabout route / detour / (fig.) wrong way (of doing sth)
 guǎi wān mò jiǎo lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom) / fig. to speak in a roundabout way / to equivocate / to beat about the bush
 zhuàn yǐ swivel chair / children's roundabout
 zhī wú qí cí (idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth / evasive
 rào wān r to go for a walk around / fig. to speak in a roundabout way
 rào wān to go for a walk around / fig. to speak in a roundabout way
 zhuǎn biàn mò jiǎo lit. (of road) winding and turning (idiom) / to speak in a roundabout way / to equivocate / to beat about the bush
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