So, you use a euphemism, right, instead of saying she's fat.

所以你用了委婉的说法，不是说她很胖。

Oh! Clever! Playing on the use of cardinal numbers as euphemisms for bodily functions.

行啊你！用基数词做文章来委婉表达人体机能。

In the Middle Ages, to pluck fruit in Dutch was a euphemism for sex.

在中世纪，采果在荷兰语中是性的委婉说法。

" Hallucinations" might be thought of as a forgiving euphemism.

“幻觉”可能被认为是一种带有宽恕性的委婉说法。

If Orwell were writing today, he would find plenty of euphemisms to complain about.

如果奥威尔在现代写作，他会发现大量值得抱的委婉语。

Is it anything more than a euphemism for censorship?

这是否只是审查制度的委婉说法呢?

A euphemism is kind of a polite disguised swear word.

委婉语是一种礼貌的伪装脏话。

" Heavens" is kind of a euphemism, a polite word.

“天哪”算是一种委婉语，是个礼貌的词。

There are so many euphemisms that we put on in society to not have to say the word menstruation.

社会上有很多委婉语，不用月经这个词。

Jose Graziano da Silva, Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General.Chronic undernourishment is a technical euphemism for being chronically hungry.

联合国粮食农业组织总干事何塞·加拉西亚诺·达席尔瓦说道。慢性营养不良是一种专业上讲被长期处于饥饿状态的委婉说法。

I'm pretty sure that euphemisms exist in most languages, but I'm not a hundred percent sure.

我很确定大多数语言中都有委婉语，但我不是百分之百确定。

Is that some kinda weird euphemism?

这是什么奇怪的隐喻吗？

That's also a euphemism, polite, not too bad.

这也是一种委婉语，礼貌，不算太差。

And then we have some euphemisms.

然后我们有一些委婉语。

So, here our euphemisms are also idioms in order to say things you may not be comfortable with.

委婉语也是习语，用来表达你可能感到不适的事情。

The second one is a relatively modern euphemism and it's one that is quite often used by hipsters.

第二个是一个相对现代的委婉语，并且是经常被时尚达人使用的。

Stephen Colbert, a comedian, joked that " Minister for Loneliness" sounded like " a Victorian euphemism for 'gigolo'" .

喜剧演员斯蒂芬·科尔伯特开玩笑说，“孤独部长”听起来像是“维多利亚时代对‘舞男’的委婉说法”。

The social-mediafication of writing has steered the tone from the offence of euphemism to its twin offence of exaggeration.

写作的社交媒体化将文体罪行从委婉语变成了夸大其辞。

Anyway, today I am going to talk to you about euphemisms.

不管怎样，今天我要和你们谈谈委婉语。

And we use euphemisms, um, to avoid offending people or saying words we're not comfortable with, right?

我们用委婉语，来避免冒犯别人或者说一些让我们不舒服的话。