I think it's quite clear, and there's no need to be more euphemistic. 我觉得这里语气比较生硬,能不能有一种不直译的,委婉的说法呢?
Coy and euphemistic by today's standards, Victorian marriage manuals were the first widely available books to try to unlock the secrets of the body's sex drive. 维多利亚时期的婚姻手册,虽然在今天看来腼腆委婉,却也是揭示人体性冲动之迷的最早广泛流传的读本。
The author tries to probe into the pragmalinguistic failure and sociopragmatic failure in euphemistic expressions from pragmatic point of view and analyze the pragmatic failure due to context differentiation, style differentia 针对英语委婉表达中的语用—语言失误和社交—语言失误现象,从语用的角度,分析了英语委婉表达中语用失误的原因:语境差异、体差异、汇感情色彩差异、化习惯差异以及对语用原则遵守与取舍的差异。
euphemistic
[ adj ] substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one <adj.all> `peepee' is a common euphemistic term
Euphemistic \Eu`phe*mis"tic\, Euphemistical \Eu`phe*mis"tic*al\, a. Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; softened in expression. -- {Eu`phe*mis"tic*al*ly}, adv.
He stayed a month to observe, and it is from the voluminous, euphemistic letters he sent Stieglitz that Ms. Eisler concludes the women were lovers.
(Private detectives are illegal in Korea, hence the euphemistic job description.) Soon, with prodding by Mr. O'Neill, the police raids began.