在一些正式场合或日常交流中,人们常用一种比较婉转、文雅的话来表达一些难听的、不便直说的、粗俗的或所忌讳的事物和概念,这就是所谓的委婉语,英文叫做euphemism。前缀eu表示“好”(good),如:eugenics,eulogy等,词根pheme的意思是“话”(speech),整个单词的意思是说好听的话,即(comfortablewords)。委婉语通过语法和词汇手段来表达,其中以词汇为主,比如,It might be helpful to try the new method.I don’t think shecould be wrong.这两个句子分别通过过去时和否定句来表示委婉。这种修辞方式在英语中运用得非常广泛,下面简要地介绍一下英语中一些常见的委婉语。委婉语是一种修辞,它的产生主要是为了社会交往更加方便, In some formal occasions or daily exchanges, people often use a relatively mild and elegant words to express some unpleasant, inconvenient to say, vulgar or taboo things and concepts, which is the so-called euphemism, English is called euphemism. The prefix eu stands for “good,” such as: eugenics, eulogy, etc. The root pheme means “speech,” and the whole word means comfortable words. Euphemisms are expressed through grammar and lexical means, of which vocabulary is dominant, for example, It might be helpful to try the new method. I do not think shecould be wrong. These two sentences are represented by past and negative sentences respectively Euphemism. This rhetorical approach is widely used in English, the following brief introduction to some common English euphemism. Euphemism is a kind of rhetoric, its production is mainly for social contact more convenient,