1·The term "early retirement" is nearly always a euphemism for layoffs nowadays.
如今“提前退休”这个词几乎总是下岗的委婉语。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism.
这种华而不实的风格本身就是一种委婉语。
3·Unfortunately, all of your suggestions of what you write on it are bad. “In Transition” is too blatant (and too pretentious) a euphemism for unemployed.
遗憾的是，你有关名片内容的所有建议都很糟糕。对于失业者而言，“过渡期”这个委婉语太过刺眼（也太过狂妄）。
4·Space agencies try desperately to conceal these realities with euphemism and secrecy.
空间机构都拼命掩盖事实与这些委婉语和保密性。
5·The study on euphemism phenomenon helps to cultivate the consciousness of cross cultural communication and avoid pragmatic errors.
对委婉语现象的研究有助于培养跨文化交际意识，避免语用失误。
1·'User fees' is just a politician's euphemism for taxes.
“用户费”不过是政治家对“税款”的委婉说法。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·For the majority of women who have given birth - and most of the men who have watched them - these "sensations" are a euphemism for pain.
对于绝大多数生育的妇女- - -和绝大多数观看她们的男人- - -这些“感觉”是一种对痛苦的委婉说法。
3·The family has been unable to plant its main sorghum crop, she says, and their buffaloes are becoming “diseased”, a euphemism for starving.
今年，她们家没有办法种植主要的农作物高粱，莎丽拉说到，而且她们家的水牛都“不健康”了--对于挨饿的一种委婉说法。
4·It should also be clear that "fractional-reserve warehousing" is only a euphemism for fraud and embezzlement.
我们也应该十分清楚所谓“部分准备金仓储制度”不过是对欺诈和侵占行为的一种委婉说法。
5·But Varney, tall and professorial, did not hide her message behind legalese or euphemism.
但身材高大且有学者派头的瓦尼并没有把她的发言要点用法律术语或者委婉说法掩盖起来。