long-winded

long-wind·ed /ˌlɒŋ ˈwɪndɪd◂ $ ˌlɒːŋ-/ adjectiveadj

1 BORINGcontinuing to talk for too long or using too many words in a way that is boring 冗长乏味的，絮絮叨叨的

His speeches tend to be rather long-winded.

他的演说往往都很冗长乏味。

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2 if a way of doing something is long-winded, it is very complicated 繁琐的

The whole process is incredibly long-winded.

整个过程繁琐得叫人难以相信。

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long-winded• Her letters do tend to be a bit long-winded.• Natural language is ambiguous and long-winded and these techniques are much superior.• That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded, but corporate crime is a complex issue.• Jacques launched into a long-winded explanation that left us just as confused as before.• Massot was a pleasant but impossibly long-winded Gaul whose briefest reminiscence about his days in the Resistance tended to last an hour.• No, those long-winded gentlemen put me off sermons for a good long while.• This method is, however, a little long-winded if you only want to edit a couple of lines.• The journey was a long-winded one, first by train to Carcassonne and then to Couiza-Montazels.• long-winded politicians• One wonders what would happen should Mack apply her long-winded principles to herself.• I'm sick of reading badly-written and long-winded scripts by candidates who should know better.• Dad can be so long-winded sometimes, I cringe when he starts talking to someone new.• One long-winded speaker after another came to the podium.• But you don't need to go this long-winded way around doing it.

long-wind·ed adjectiveadj

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