adj.委婉的，迂回的，冗长的...

John is making a periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion.约翰正在对陈腐的诗风做迂回冗长的研究。Most finite verbal forms diachronically derive from nominalizations and periphrastic constructions with auxiliary verbs.副词,后置词几乎完全都有名词...

periphrastic的音标：periphrastic的英式发音音标为：[ˌperɪ'fræstɪk]periphrastic的美式发音音标为：[ˌpɛrə'fræstɪk]...