The memo called the layoffs a restructuring, but everyone recognized the euphemism immediately.

備忘錄把裁員稱為「重整」，但大家馬上就看穿這個委婉說法。

In customer service emails, we use the euphemism delayed rather than lost for missing packages.

在客服電子郵件中，我們用「延遲」這個委婉語，而不說包裹「遺失」。

The CFO described the quarterly loss as negative growth, a euphemism that annoyed investors.

財務長把季度虧損說成「負成長」，這種委婉說法讓投資人很不滿。