knotty

英 ['nɒti] 美 ['nɑːti]

• adj. 有结的；多节的；多瘤的；复杂的；棘手的

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 棘手的
2. 有结的
3. 多节的
4. 复杂的
5. 难解决的
6. 有节的
7. 缠绕在一起的
8. 节疤多的
9. 纠纷的
10. 深奥
11. 伤脑筋的
12. 让人捉摸不透
13. 多结的
14. 打结的
15. 多瘤的
16. 多结节的
17. 多节瘤的
18. 困难的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. 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"
   

2. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots;

   "gnarled and knotted hands"
   "a knobbed stick"
   

3. 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"
   

4. tangled in knots or snarls;

   "a mass of knotted string"
   "snarled thread"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. This is a knotty passage.
   这是一段复杂难懂的文字。
2. She met with a lot of knotty problems.
   她碰上了许多棘手的问题。
3. It is almost impossible to skirt the knotty problem.
   想回避这个棘手的问题几乎是不可能的。

经典引文

• Make..Thy knotty and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end.

  出自：Hamlet , Shakespeare

词汇搭配

• 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

近反义词

【近义词】

• complicated 复杂难懂的
• tough 强硬的
• problematic 问题的
• tricky 棘手的
• difficult 困难的
• awkward 尴尬的
• complex 复杂的
• thorny 多刺的
• hard 硬的
• baffling 令人困惑的
• convoluted 旋绕的
• tortuous 弯曲的
• knobbed 有节的
• gnarled 树木多瘤节的...
• Byzantine 拜占庭的
• involved 涉及的
• snarled 纠缠不清的
• problematical 成问题的
• knotted 打结的
• gnarly 扭曲的
• snarly 善于嚣叫的
• tangled 纠缠的
• elusive 难懂的