circuitous

adj.

1. 迂回的；绕道的；曲折的
   long and not direct

1. ADJ-GRADED (线路)迂回的，绕行的
   A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct.
   1. The cabdriver took them on a circuitous route to the police station...
      出租车司机载着他们绕了个大圈才到警察局。
   2. Stuart came into film-making via a circuitous route.
      斯图尔特费尽周折才最终开始电影制作。

1. The cabdriver took them on a circuitous route to the police station
   出租车司机载着他们绕了个大圈才到警察局。
2. Stuart came into film-making via a circuitous route.
   斯图尔特费尽周折才最终开始电影制作。
3. The canal followed a circuitous route.
   运河沿河道迂回。
4. Joda's classes are capable of producing ( though at times in a somewhat circuitous manner, as you'll see) instances of java. util. Date ( and Calendar).
   Joda的类能够生成（但是，正如您将看到的一样，有时会采用一种比较迂回的方式）java.util.Date的实例（和Calendar）。
5. Although it's hardly the client's fault, the accelerated3D graphics driver I needed broke compilation of OpenGL programs, leading to a fairly circuitous workaround.
   尽管它很难成为客户机的默认设置，但是我需要的3D图形加速驱动程序破坏了OpenGL程序的编译过程，这会导致需要使用相当复杂的解决方案。
6. Their walk having been circuitous they were still not far from the house, and in obeying his direction she only had to reach the large stone bridge across the main river, and follow the road for a few yards.
   他们那天是绕着圈子走的，所以始终离他们的屋子不远，她听从了他的指挥回去睡觉，只要走过那条河上的大石桥，再沿着那条路向前走几码就到了。
7. In fact, the two communicate regularly through a multitude of circuitous loops that researchers have only just begun to map.
   实际上，它们经常通过众多迂回曲折的神经回路彼此通讯，而科研人员在这方面的研究才刚刚起步。
8. Because of the circuitous and directional flow of waterways, railways often have an energy advantage over barges.
   由于河道迂回曲折且水流具有方向性，因而铁路运输较之水运，常常具有节能优势。
9. He took a circuitous route to the library, to avoid passing her house.
   他绕道去图书馆，以避免从她家经过。
10. If something as straightforward as an opal can make such a circuitous journey, imagine what goes on with sophisticated electronics.
    如果一块简简单单的蛋白石都能经历如此曲折的旅程的话，想象一下在精密的电子产品身上会发生什么。
11. From Unilateral Punishment to Circuitous Adverseness: Another Interpretation on Chinese Criminal Procedure
    从单向度惩罚到迂回博弈：对我国刑事诉讼模式的另一种解读
12. It affects the soul directly; but it can affect it also by obscure and circuitous ways-through the blood.
    它不仅直接影响人们，还可以迂回曲折地通过血液影响着人们的灵魂。
13. If it does, the MD should not have been relying on this circuitous and random route to make the discovery. Surely his staff should have tipped him off long ago.
    如果是，董事总经理就不应该通过如此曲折、随机的途径获悉，员工们应当很早以前就已经向他反映了才对。
14. Most of the world's multinationals have operations in China but the bulk of overseas money has come from Taiwan, Hong Kong and, indeed, by a circuitous route, from China itself, often invested in low-cost factories for export.
    大多数全球跨国企业在中国都有业务，但有很大一部分海外资金来自台湾和香港，甚至以一种迂回的方式来自中国自身。这些资金往往投资于面向出口的低成本工厂。
15. Her book came to the screen by a somewhat circuitous route.
    她那本书经过一番周折才搬上银幕。
16. Circuitous windings or sinuosities, as of a stream or path. The river flows cranking into the village.
    曲流河流道路的迂回处或弯曲河流弯弯曲曲地流进村落。
17. Less well known, however, is the fact that almost every Chinese borrower that has tapped the international markets for funds has done so through a circuitous route that exposes investors to considerable risk.
    人们不太清楚的是，在国际市场上融资的中国企业几乎都采取了一条迂回的路径，使投资者面临相当大的风险。
18. Many alien plants have become introduced by highly circuitous routes. Weaved our way through the heavy traffic.
    许多外来植物是通过极其迂回曲折的道路引进的。
19. The evolution of the relationship between ruling the country by law and socialism has undergone a circuitous process.
    法治与社会主义的关联经历了一个曲折的发展过程。
20. He took us on a circuitous route to the hotel.
    他带我们绕道去旅馆。
21. The figure is a circuitous conduit for the transmission of energies.
    这图形是一种作为能量传导的迂回的媒介。
22. The explanation was circuitous and puzzling; a roundabout paragraph; hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend.
    这个解释不直接、令人费解；间接描述的段落；间接的听说她的前夫和她最好的朋友结婚了。
23. I have illustrated some of the circuitous routes we have taken to arrive at our present caiman nomenclature.
    我已经说明了一些迂回路线，我们已经采取措施来达成我们目前的凯门鳄命名。
24. The more circuitous route would be the quickest. The way of performance budgeting reform can choose trilogy model.
    采取比较迂回的路线，可能是捷径。在路径选择上，可以采取三步走的模式。
25. Analysis of specific consumption values among youth consumers His explanation was circuitous and puzzling.
    青年消费群体的特殊消费价值观解析他的解释在兜圈子，让人费解。
26. The taxi moved in zigzags and circuitous routes.
    这出租汽车沿着曲折迂回的路线行驶。
27. We had to take a circuitous route because of an accident on the turnpike.
    由于收费公路上发生了事故，我们不得不走一条弯路。
28. This is a concise discussion of the potential costs and benefits of constructing a new, much less circuitous road to link Nepal and India;
    这篇文章简要讨论建造一条较少弯路的公路以连接尼泊尔和印度，此工程的潜在成本和效益；
29. Like other great Russian composers, Tschaikovsky arrived at music by a circuitous route, almost by accident.
    同许多俄国的伟大作曲家一样，柴可夫斯基经历了一条曲折的道路才到达音乐的国土，并且几乎是出于偶然。
30. Brown took a circuitous route to academic life; he was a musician and a plumber first.
    布朗过上做学问的日子颇费周折，他最早是乐师，还做过管子工。

adj

1. deviating from a straight course
   1. a scenic but devious route
   2. a long and circuitous journey by train and boat
   3. a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic

   Synonym:    deviousroundabout

2. marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct
   1. the explanation was circuitous and puzzling
   2. a roundabout paragraph
   3. hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend

   Synonym:    roundabout