Circuity of action
[法] 迂回反复诉讼
🧩 词语组成解析
n. 曲折性, 间接性, 拐弯抹角的行动
of
[əv]
prep. 关于;属于…的;由…制成;
aux. 助动词 [非标准用语、方言] =have [主用于虚拟语气];
action
['ækʃən]
n. 行动，活动;功能，作用;手段;[法]诉讼;
🗣️ 情景例句
I'll be married to Susan.
我就要和Susan结婚了。
No,I don't .
不，我没有。
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.
当读者到小说最后几页了解到书中女主人公，那位一向待大家很好的可爱的老妇人年轻时一连毒死了她的5个丈夫时，不禁会毛骨悚然。