英语释义

• used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots;

  "gnarled and knotted hands"

  "a knobbed stick"

• 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"

• 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"

片语

Knotty GreenThe Red Lion Knotty GreenKnotty Green is a rural hamlet in the parish of Penn in Buckinghamshire, England and located in the Chiltern Hills near Beaconsfield. Knotty Green and Beaconsfield are, however, separated by a parish and district council boundary.

knotty ascites腹水

knotty wells疑难井

knotty gneiss瘤状片麻巖

Knotty Liaisons爱情百科

Knotty Liaison爱情百科

knotty graph有结图

knotty problem难解决的问题

knotty coding疑难编码

knotty wood[木]

英汉例句

• reconciling and resolving gem dependencies is something of a knotty problem.

  协调和解决gem依赖性是个棘手的问题。

• he made his mind to solve the knotty problem by himself.

  他下决心自己解决这个棘手的问题。

• the bank drew up a fresh index to get around the knotty problem of defining 「urban」; this new measure puts the world’s city-dwelling population at about 47% in 2000.

  世行新创了一种计算方法，绕过了棘手的「城市」定义问题，得出2000年世界城市居民人口约占（世界总人口的）47%。

• she met with a lot of knotty problems.

  她碰上了许多棘手的问题。

• on the knotty but crucial question of how to reduce deforestation and the emissions it causes, progress was scanty.

  对于如何减缓森林的砍伐以及降低排放这个棘手而又关键的问题而言，进展异常缓慢。

• for example, the siding is a knotty western red cedar, which was stained rather than painted so that the knots and grain showed through.

  外墻使用的是多节的西部红雪松，只刷了清漆没有着色，因此木头上的节疤和纹路都清晰可见。

• the next knotty question -- and the one probably on your mind at the moment -- is how you input text in non-ascii fonts.

  下一个棘手的问题 ——也可能是现在正出现在您脑海中的问题 ——是我们如何以非ascii字体的形式来输入文本。

• this was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life.

  这可不是我追求浪漫的时刻，让已然纷乱不堪的生活更加复杂（会像白日跟着黑夜而来一般）。

• but connecting the dots has proved to be a knotty problem for organizations built on secrecy and control.

  对于各大组织来说，在安全和可控的基础上将各个信息点连接起来被证明是一个难题。

• the prediction and forecasting of coal and gas outburst is a complicated and knotty problem.

  煤与瓦斯突出预测预报是一个十分复杂而棘手的问题。

• procure a solution to a knotty problem.

  解决了一个棘手的问题。

• he and the don had solved many a knotty problem in this room, and so when he saw the godfather leave the festivities and enter the house, he knew, wedding or no, there would be a little work this day.

  他和堂在这间屋子里解决了许多棘手的问题，因此，当他看到教父离开庆典进入那所房子时，他知道，婚礼与否，这天会有一点事情。

• lacking of fault samples is a knotty problem in the fault detection of complex systems such as liquid-propellant rocket engines (lre).

  在对类似于液体火箭发动机这种复杂系统的故障检测过程中，一个非常棘手的问题是缺乏故障类样本。

• the knotty joints of his hips and shoulders stood out a good three inches from his body.

  腰胯和双肩的关节瘦骨嶙峋，突出身体三英寸之多。

• these are knotty ethical question to be solved.

  这些是有待解决的棘手的道德问题。

• before the floods, the knotty rules governing farmers’ water rights had slashed by two-thirds the average volumes they were allowed to extract each year.

  还没有发洪水的时候，那些管理农民用水权的纠结法规就已经把他们每年平均用水量减少了三分之二。

• he spent much of a presentation discussing the 「surprises」 the company has faced pursuing projects outside china, such as land purchase challenges in africa and knotty water rights in south america.

  金霄光的发言大部分在谈五矿有色在国外收购项目时碰到的各种「意外」，比如在非洲买地遇到的挑战，以及在南美洲碰上的棘手的水权问题。

• it has a website, but it still has to unlace the knotty problem facing all weeklies trying to manage themselves into an online future — what does a web-based weekly look like?

  商业周刊拥有一个网站，但是它仍需要解决当下面临的难题，同时也是所有周刊杂志所面临的问题，就是将来如何转变成为一家网上杂志，一家以网站为基础的周刊看起来如何？

• that「s right, as ken dodd used to say about returning from 50 years lost in space to find the cup final was taking place between knotty ash and everton.

  这就像肯托德在50年前足总杯决赛中诺托阿什和埃弗顿失利后所说的。

• even pro-reform politicians admit that many knotty issues would have to be resolved before a senate could rise from the ashes of the house of lords.

  支持改革的政客们也认为在废除在上议院与建立参议院之间还有许多棘手的问题需要解决。

• a knotty-pine grandfather-clock business may sound great, but what if there」s only one source of knotty pine?

  一种knotty-pine 的落地大摆钟听上去不错，但是如果knotty-pine只有一个来源呢？

• the production of high visccoity oil is a knotty problem in every oilfield.

  高凝高粘稠油的开采，是各油田感到十分棘手的问题。

• most worrying, the budget ignores the knotty problem of italy’s feeble growth.

  最令人担忧的是，这次预算忽略了意大利极其微弱增长的棘手问题。

• these issues matter all the more because the next (presumably ak) government faces harder times and some knotty problems.

  这些问题之所以至关紧要，原因在于下一届（或将是正义发展党领导的）政府将面临更严酷的时期，许多问题也十分棘手。

相似词

complicated难懂的，复杂的