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他说话文绉绉的。He speaks like a book.

你别那么文绉绉地讲话，吉米先生。Don't you speak like a book, Mr. Jimmy.

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您瞧韩佳，一看到美景，说话就文绉绉的了。Han Jia, whenever you see a beautiful place, you would always sound pedantic.

请不要处处使用文绉绉的言辞，让你的语言更加人性化，更加简单易懂。Don't appear so scholarly pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

听起来文绉绉的问题，实际上答案很直接。These sound like rhetorical questions, but actually they have straightforward answers.

新的公众需要比文绉绉的夫子所提供的更有味道的作品。Still the new public wanted something more savoury than its elegant teachers had given.

这次起了这么文绉绉的题目，简直超乎我自己的想象，也大跌大家的眼镜了。This time the subject is used here, which is beyond my imagination and gives every one a big surprise.

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选择的最佳办法就是到商店去，用眼睛来比较，而不要理会那些文绉绉的技术术语。The best way to choose is to go to a store and compare with your own eyes, without worrying about techie jargon.

英国国民党作家既用生僻的细节又用文绉绉的引用来支撑他们的观点的合理性。Both BNP writers also use esoteric detail and scholarly references to increase the apparent validity of their claims.

美国人通常很尊重医生，但共和党人认为迪恩太爱批评，而且在竞选演说中的话听起来太文绉绉。Americans tend to respect doctors, but Republicans think Dean will be too critical and sound too intellectual on the stump①.

你必须承认，那个甘草戒指很甜蜜。就算你一直文绉绉的，我也不想再听到任何孔已己般的话，直到我找到我的那一份。You have to admit, the licorice ring was sweet. Look, even if you're just being literal, I don't want to hear another word about your albatross Until we find mine.

当一个说话文绉绉的德国人开始说一个句子时，他就像跳进了水里一样，得等他在大西洋的彼岸探出头来说出那个动词时，你才能再看见他了。Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his Verb in his mouth.