引论委婉语是人们在交际中用来表达(谈沦)不宜直言的人或事物的言语。按H.W.Fowler的《A Dictionary of Modern English Usage》的说法。委婉语是“a mild or vague periphrastic expression as a substitute for blunt precision of disagreeable truth”。①从修辞学的角度讲,委婉是一种修辞手法;从委婉用语的形式看,它可以分为词语的委婉和语句的委婉;从委婉的内 Introduction Euphemism is the language people use in communication to express (talkative) people or things that should not be blunt. According to H.W.Fowler’s “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”. Euphemism is “a mild or vague periphrastic expression as a substitute for blunt precision of disagreeable truth.” From a rhetorical point of view, euphemism is a rhetorical device. From the perspective of euphemism, it can be divided into the euphemism of words and the euphemism of sentences;