"`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions" "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological" "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"
例句
Without the noisy music and pleonastic governmental documents, such life is as happy as that in Zhu Geliang’s Mao Cottage in Nan Yang and in Yang Ziyun’s Xuan Pavilion in West Sichuan Province. 没有嘈杂的音乐扰乱两耳，没有官府公文劳累身心。它好比南阳诸葛亮的茅庐，西蜀扬子云的玄亭。
An instance of pleonasm. 冗笔的例子
in this sense it is not a pleonasm to say, as many have, that the morally virtuous life is the good or best life. 在这个意义上它不是一种重复，正如许多人认为的道德上有德行的生活是好的或最好的生活。
