knotty
英 ['nɒtɪ]
美['nɑti]
- adj. 棘手的，难解决的；[木] 多节的；有结的
词态变化
比较级: knottier;最高级: knottiest;
中文词源
knotty 复杂的
来自knot,结。即多结的，引申词义复杂的。参照Gordian knot.
英英释意
- 1. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve;
- "a baffling problem"
- "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"
- "a problematic situation at home"
- 2. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots;
- "gnarled and knotted hands"
- "a knobbed stick"
- 3. highly involved or intricate;
- "the Byzantine tax structure"
- "convoluted legal language"
- "convoluted reasoning"
- "intricate needlework"
- "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"
- "the plot was too involved"
- "a knotty problem"
- "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"
- "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott
- "tortuous legal procedures"
- "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
英文词源
- knotty (adj.)
- mid-13c. (figurative use early 13c.), from knot (n.) + -y (2). Related: Knottiness.
考试真题
- Einstein would furiously play his violin as a way to think through a knotty physics problem.
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实用场景例句
- a knotty problem
- 棘手的问题
牛津词典
- the knotty roots of the old oak tree
- 盘根错节的老橡树根
牛津词典
- The new management team faces some knotty problems.
- 新的管理团队面临一些棘手的问题。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...the knotty trunk of a hawthorn tree.
- 多节的山楂树干
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The knotty problem which affects production has been solved.
- 解决了影响快速达产的难题.
期刊摘选
- The foxed the arrogant instructor with a knotty problem.
- 那位受训的队员故意用难题把傲慢的“教练”搞糊涂.
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- With the rapid growth of floating population, the population management has become a knotty problem.
- 在当今的社会中流动人口的加剧, 对人口的管理是一个很难的问题.
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- But how to develop logistics industry quickly and efficiently is a knotty problem China faces.
- 但是如何既快又好地经营物流是摆在我们面前的一个棘手的课题.
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- Engineers would also have to solve some knotty packaging problems.
- 还有,工程师也必须能解决某些错综复杂的套装问题.
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- Connected to this is the knotty matter of division.
- 与此相关联的是棘手的除法问题.
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- The trainee foxed the arrogant instructor with a knotty problem.
- 那位受训的队员故意用难题把傲慢的教练搞糊涂.
辞典例句
- This is a knotty passage.
- 这是一段复杂难懂的文字.
《用法词典》
- He was scowling fearfully, and I judged that he was concocting a particularly knotty editorial.
- 他皱眉瞪眼,样子很可怕, 我估计他是在拼凑一篇特别伤脑筋的社论.
辞典例句
- I judged that he was concocting a particularly knotty editorial.
- 我估计他是在拼凑一篇特别伤脑筋的社论.
辞典例句
- Procure a solution a knotty problem.
- 找到了一个解决棘手问题的办法.
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- Even the professor could not clarify the knotty point.
- 甚至教授也无法解决这个棘手问题.
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- Presently, piglet early weaning diarrhea is a knotty disease in most pig farm.
- 仔猪早期断奶腹泻是目前养猪业比较棘手的一种疾病.
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- They met to discuss knotty problems and talk them out to a point of mutual understanding.
- 他们开会讨论,解决棘手的问题,从而达成相互谅解.
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- Under his leadership, many knotty problems were smoothly solved.
- 在他的领导下, 许多伤脑筋的问题都迎刃而解.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- She met with a lot of knotty problems.
- 她碰上了许多棘手的问题.
《简明英汉词典》
- Fault detection in distribution network is being a worldwide knotty point for along time.
- 配电网单相接地时的故障选线问题,是国际上长期以来一直存在的技术难题.
期刊摘选
- Guthrie Garver, known as Gus , was a small, quiet , knotty man.
- 人们习惯称之为格斯的格斯利·加弗, 个子矮小, 举止文雅, 让人捉摸不透.
辞典例句
- The old man grasped the bowl in his shriveled, knotty fingers , muttering, uttering little grunts.
- 老人一边嘟嘟囔囔唠叨着, 一边用他那干瘪嶙峋的手抓住水碗.
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- Ah yes, the knotty business of slaughter.
- 啊, 屠宰中棘手的问题来了.
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- He nodded his head repeatedly as if he had managed to solve some knotty problem.
- 他不住地点着头,似乎幸而弄明白了一个疑难的问题.
子夜部分
- Whether the Channel tunnel should be built or not is a knotty point.
- 该不该修英吉利海峡隧道,是一个难以决定的复杂问题.
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- He had to discuss knotty points of Rousseau and Hegel with her.
- 他不得不和她讨论卢梭和黑格尔的那些深奥问题.
辞典例句
- He delights to worry out knotty points in English.
- 他以绞尽脑汁来解决盘根错节般的项语问题为乐.
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- I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast.
- 我遇到了早餐吃什么这个烦人的问题.
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