recondite

• adj. 深奥的；隐藏的；默默无闻的

re-,向后，离开，con-,表强调，-dit,放置，给予，词源同 edit,donate.即放到后面的，放起来的， 引申词义隐藏的，深奥的。

1. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge;

"the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"

"a deep metaphysical theory"

"some recondite problem in historiography"

recondite

recondite: [17] Recondite ‘obscure, abstruse’ means etymologically ‘hidden’. It comes from reconditus, the past participle of Latin recondere ‘hide’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘again’ and condere ‘put away, store’ (ultimate source of English condiment [15], literally ‘stored’ or ‘preserved’ food).
=> condiment

recondite (adj.)

1640s, "removed or hidden from view," from Old French recondit, from Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere "store away, hide, conceal, put back again, put up again, lay up," from re- "away, back" (see re-) + condere "to store, hide, put together," from con- "together" (see con-) + -dere "to put, place," comb. form of dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Meaning "removed from ordinary understanding, profound" is from 1650s; of writers or sources, "obscure," it is recorded from 1817.

Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject-matter.

她的诗在风格上是时髦的实验派，主题艰深难懂。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

To a craftsman , the ancient article with recondite and scholastic words was too abstruse to understand.

可是对一个车轮师父而言,这些之乎者也的文言文是太深而难懂的.

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Although the calculation method of the average value is simple but its meaning is recondite.

平均值的计算方法虽然十分简单,但是,它的内涵却并不是十分简单.

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Yet the Revolution turned upon the most obscure and recondite minutiae of astronomical research.

然而这场革命却取决于天文学研究中最晦涩隐秘的细微之处.

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We hear from mathematicians that bees have practically solved a recondite problem.

我们听到数学家说,蜜蜂已实际解决了一个深奥的数学问题.

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