Insinuate (續：迂迴 遁辭 挑剔 游移 單字大集合)

insinuate



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vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    使逐漸而巧妙地取得;使迂迴地滲入[(+into)]

                       He tried to insinuate himself into the boss's favor.

                       他設法巧妙地漸漸取得老板的歡心。

          2.    含沙射影地說;暗示;暗指[(+to)][+(that)]

                      She insinuated to us that her partner had embezzled funds.

                      她旁敲側擊地指出她的合夥人盜用了資金。



vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)



          1.    說含沙射影的話;暗諷





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insinuate (v.)   

 

when it means "to work your way into, by indirect or artful means," is usually [reflexive]: 



She insinuated [herself] [into] the [family's affections]. 



When it means "to suggest something unpleasant or unflattering," as in 



He insinuated [that] they had tried to buy his vote, 



it frequently takes a [that] clause as direct object. 





。迂迴

oblique 

neither perpendicular nor parallel, indirect 

Denis details obsessively not only the rituals of military life but the half-naked bodies of the [legionnaires] in a manner that both recalls and [obliquely] mocks Leni Riefenstahl.

This one is more direct, more concerned [with] showing off the basic[s] of the story. Which is probably necessary, but I prefer the more oblique [approach] in this case.

The viewer is left to guess, as much as the characters, at the actual events that are glimpsed obliquely. 

innuendo 

an indirect intimation about a person or thing, esp. of a disparaging or a derogatory nature.  

minutiae 

pl. of minutia

The Weinsteins offered QT all the [room] he needed to put his vision on screen time and time again, down to [obsessive] minutiae.

insinuate

women never ask. No, they don't ask, they insinuate. And you are insinuating, not very subtly, may I add, that I am...

He tried to insinuate [himself] into the boss's favor.

She insinuated [to] us [that] her partner had [embezzled] funds.

Juan Antonio insinuates [himself] into both women's lives in the coming days.

The Birds features a classic Alfred Hitchcock setup: average people placed in circumstances turned upside down. And of course, there are the [requisite] dark insinuations and strange psychological [underpinnings]. As in Psycho, Hitchcock's previous film, the [normalcy] of the setting is allowed to set in before the audience is thrown into the [perverse] drama. 

sinuous

A sinuous dark comedy about cinema, Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep may cast a critical eye on the state of 1990s filmmaking and all that it implies, but the critic-turned-director also creates an artistically thrilling testament to the medium's luminous allure.

circumlocutory

A tense, disorienting first act sets the stage, but with only these two characters to follow for 100 more minutes of circumlocutory chases and [staccato] run-ins, the squirm factor is high.



。挑剔

finicky 

persnickety 

snobbish

As persnickety Dr. Tarnower, Sir Ben Kingsley [oozes] equal parts charm and condescension.

fastidious 

painstaking

queasy 

squeamish

barb 

The film works best when Seth and Evan are [trading] barbs and simply playing off one another, a testament [to] the enduring friendship shared between the two screenwriters.   

carp

Among the [critical] carps aimed [at] Marnie was the complaint that the studio-bound sets -- particularly the waterfront locale where the film ends -- were [tacky] and [artificial]; curiously, this seeming "carelessness" adds to the [queasy], [off]-setting mood that Hitchcock [endeavored] to sustain.

One of cinema's greatest provocateurs, Jean-Luc Godard, presents another barb[ed] but thoughtful meditation on culture, politics and cinema in this experimental drama.

cavil 

find fault with unnecessarily  

Some will [quibble] and [cavil] that the movie is too contrived

I'm 2 years older than you are. A little bit more. Mister starts cavilling.



。遁辭

quip

a clever or witty remark or comment.

a sharp, sarcastic remark, a cutting jest.

a quibble. 

Many people [used] the quip that "They [said] the same thing about sound and color." And while I think 3D is a [huge] innovation for cinema, I don’t think that is an [apt] comparison.

quibble 

an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.

petty or carping criticism, a minor objection.

Polanski should have sought more visual ways to open up the play's action, but this is a small [quibble].

and who could be labeled as yuppies if they didn't [quibble] about the term. 

While Balkan locations don’t completely convince as Malta or India, that’s a [minor] quibble, 

The arrival of elephant-sized white spiders sets in motion an adventure that takes the quibbling siblings across the universe to [battle] the forces of evil.

prevaricate 

speak misleadingly

equivocate 

use ambiguous expressions to mislead

The lesser-known Wilson may be the first among equals, impressing strongly as the [equivocating] husband.

equivocal

The real subject, she says, is the mother-son relationship, and Eva's agonisingly equivocal feelings towards her boy.

weasel 

fudge & mudge

nudge 

subterfuge 

She regards her [subterfuge] as "a game that amuses me, even though it's dangerous,"

George's own [subterfuge], his [surreptitious] photographing of people on the Métro- a form of surveillance that leads to a marvellous montage of portraits (the work of war photographer Luc Delahaye)- further complicates the film’s [insistent] thematic build-up around responsibility to others and the [un]bridgeable [glacial] distance between people.

That question constitutes flagrant subterfuge on part of the defense. Objection sustained.

parry

to parry an embarrassing [question].  

as we watch the characters [thrust], [parry], and then [withdraw]





。游移

。諂媚

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