| 英语单词 | discursive |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [dɪs'kɜːsɪv] 美 [dɪs'kɜːrsɪv] |
| 中文释义 | adj.散漫的;不得要领的;[哲]推论的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) They complained that my writing was becoming too discursive. (2) His own toast was discursive and overlong, though rather touching. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他们抱怨我的文章变得太散漫的。 (2) 他自己的祝酒词虽然也颇为动人,但是比较松散而冗长。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If people accuse you of rambling from topic to topic in your speech or writing, they may say you have a discursive style — with changes in subject that are hard to follow. But it's okay because unicorns are shiny. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The adjective discursive is often used to describe speech or writing that tends to stray from the main point, but the word can also have almost the opposite meaning. Discursive can also be used to describe an argument based on reason instead of intuition: "Her discursive dissertation on Colonial American women was well-argued and well-reasoned. Her professors were most impressed with her work." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]离题的;东拉西扯的;不着边际的 If a style of writing is discursive, it includes a lot of facts or opinions that are not necessarily relevant. [FORMAL 正式]
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