(of a route or journey )路线或旅程 long and not direct synonym roundabout迂回的;绕道的;曲折的 He took us on a circuitous route to the hotel. 他带我们绕道去了酒店。 The journey was circuitous and slow. 旅程迂回而缓慢。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCircuitous is used with these nouns:- route
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin circuitosus, from circuitus ‘a way around’, from circuire, variant of circumire ‘go round’, from circum ‘around’ + ire ‘go’.