periphrasis（n.）
"说话的迂回方式； 这种情况的一个例子"，来自拉丁语 periphrasis "迂回说法"，来自希腊语 periphrasis,，源自 periphrazein "以迂回的方式说话"，由 peri "围绕，关于"（参见 peri-）和 phrazein "表达"（参见 phrase（名词））。
Periphrasis is also known as circumlocution; but the term periphrasis generally refers to those cases where the figure is used with effect, while "circumlocution" refers to its faulty use. Periphrasis may be defined as naming a thing indirectly by means of some well-known attribute, or characteristic, or attendant circumstance. [James De Mille, "The Elements of Rhetoric," 1878]
婉转曲折也被称为迂回说法； 但术语婉转曲折通常指的是那些使用这个修辞手法有所效果的情况，而"迂回说法"则指的是其错误的使用。婉转曲折可以被定义为通过某些众所周知的属性、特征或伴随情况间接地命名一件事物。[詹姆斯·德米尔，《修辞学要素》，1878年]
该词起源时间：1530年代