[æm'beidʒi:z]
n.
拐弯抹角, 诡秘的行动

[ noun ]
(archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action
<noun.act>

Ambages \Am*ba"ges\, n. pl. [L. (usually in pl.); pref. ambi-,
amb- + agere to drive: cf. F. ambage.]
A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding;
quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.

After many ambages, perspicuously define what this
melancholy is. --Burton.