roundabout是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 迂回的， 转弯抹角的n. 环状交叉路口，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was toilsome work, but after two hours' exertion, and a great deal of roundabout climbing, the little party found themselves once more in the pass of Antuco.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was also promenading, and the steam organ attached to a small roundabout filled the air with a pungent flavour of oil and with equally pungent music.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One was the British consul at Suez, who, despite the prophecies of the English Government, and the unfavourable predictions of Stephenson, was in the habit of seeing, from his office window, English ships daily passing to and fro on the great canal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half.
-- They took a roundabout way, so as to get at the pagoda on the rear.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something pecu-liar in this hesitating question, which seemed approaching something in a roundabout way.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is it necessary for me to use any roundabout phrase? Your Yorkshire friend your corre-spondent in Yorkshire; that would be the way, I suppose, if I were very bad. No, I can pronounce his name without the smallest distress.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The schoolhouse where Biddy was mistress I had never seen; but, the little roundabout lane by which I entered the village, for quietness' sake, took me past it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For he was sensible of having gained nothing by approaching it in a roundabout way.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She put on her hat and jacket as noiselessly as possible, and going to the back entry window, got out upon the roof of a low porch, swung herself down to the grassy bank, and took a roundabout way to the road.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is only by a roundabout process that such men ever do draw near such a girl.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we got up-stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and a roundabout and pants of his, and I put them on.
-- Shut the door and blindfold the doctor tight and fast, and make him swear to be silent as the grave, and put a purse full of gold in his hand, and then take and lead him all around the back alleys and ev-erywheres in the dark, and then fetch him here in the canoe, in a roundabout way amongst the islands, and search him and take his chalk away from him, and don't give it back to him till you get him back to the village, or else he will chalk this raft so he can find it again.
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