knotty是什么意思_knotty怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe;"a baffling problem"
"I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"
"a problematic situation at home"

used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots;"gnarled and knotted hands"
"a knobbed stick"

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;"the Byzantine tax structure"
"Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"
"convoluted legal language"
"convoluted reasoning"
"the plot was too involved"
"a knotty problem"
"got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave"
"tortuous legal procedures"
"tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

tangled in knots or snarls;"a mass of knotted string"
"snarled thread"

中英词源

knotty 复杂的

来自knot,结。即多结的，引申词义复杂的。参照Gordian knot.

knotty (adj.): mid-13c. (figurative use early 13c.), from knot (n.) + -y (2). Related: Knottiness.

词态变化

比较级 knottier;
最高级 knottiest;

权威造句

1. The new man-agement team faces some knotty problems.: 新的管理团队面临一些棘手的问题。

2. the knotty roots of the old oak tree: 盘根错节的老橡树根

3. 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.

4. She met with a lot of knotty problems.: 她碰上了许多棘手的问题.

5. This is a knotty passage.: 这是一段复杂难懂的文字.

近反义词

knotty tear 不连续撕裂

knotty tearing 曲折撕裂

knotty pine 多结松木

knotty gneiss 瘤状片麻岩

knotty problem 难题

knotty wood 多节木料

a knotty point 难题

相似短语

knotty wood 多节木料

knotty pine phr. 多结松木

knotty log 多节木

knotty problem 难题

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