verbiage
UK/'vә:biidʒ/US
GREC2
释义
n.
Speech or writing that uses too many words; wordiness with little meaning.
冗词，废话，啰嗦的措辞
词根拆分
词根派生verb（词）+ -iage（带法语味的 -age 后缀，表示某物的总和）=「一堆词」。verbiage 指的就是那堆空洞的注水文字本身——一个 verbose 的作者堆出来的多余词语。
词根 verb 还连着 7 个词常用搭配
- 1.legal verbiage法律废话
- 2.empty verbiage空洞的废话
- 3.marketing verbiage营销套话
- 4.cut the verbiage别啰嗦
例句
- 1.
The contract was buried under pages of legal verbiage.
合同被淹没在好几页法律废话之下。
- 2.
Cut the verbiage and tell me what actually happened.
别啰嗦了，告诉我到底发生了什么。
- 3.
His emails are full of corporate verbiage that says nothing.
他的邮件满是什么都没说的官腔废话。