Complication
[kɒmplɪ'keɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑmplɪ'keʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act or process of complicating.
(noun.) a development that complicates a situation; 'the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications'.
(noun.) a situation or condition that is complex or confused; 'her coming was a serious complication'.
(noun.) any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease; 'bed sores are a common complication in cases of paralysis'.
編輯:马里奥--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
(n.) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Complexity, intricacy, entanglement.
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例句/造句/用法:
- It may turn to infection--but no such deplorable complication had taken place when I left Blackwater Park. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I don't say that he is not an honourable man, out of all this complication and uncertainty; I am sure he is. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mrs. Plymdale was in a situation which caused her some complication of feeling. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- When Mr. Steffens approached the vast confusion and complication of big business, he needed some hypothesis to guide him through that maze of facts. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It was too horrible a confusion of guilt, too gross a complication of evil, for human nature, not in a state of utter barbarism, to be capable of! 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Whenever I saw him directing the driver, I was prepared for our descending into a deeper complication of such streets, and we never failed to do so. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- An interesting class of machines, but one impossible of illustration on account of their complication, are machines for making pins. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Mr Boffin's face denoted Care and Complication. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Mr Twemlow's dry and hollow cheeks become more dry and hollow at the prospect of some new complication. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Her first movement was one of annoyance: this unforeseen act of Selden's added another complication to life. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It surpassed any complications of intrigue in her favourite Pigault le Brun. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Unless there turn out to be further complications, such as I have not at present detected--yes, said Lydgate. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It involved mechanical complications that seemed to be insurmountable, and up to the time Edison invented his perforating machine no really good method was available. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Plato does not appear to have analysed the complications which arise out of the collective action of mankind. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It is difficult to decide as to the possible effect of long-standing complications; but the man had a robust constitution to begin with. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- To all other emergencies and complications my natural capacity for grappling, single-handed, with circumstances, was invariably equal. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But we cannot go further into these complications of Asiatic theology. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Look at what complications of numbers. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Enough, enough--there was an end to man's capacity for complications, even. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I don't deny that there are peculiar complications in this case; but the case itself is, most unhappily, common--common. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Look at what complications. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- These are complications beyond our present scope. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- As he spoke, he was checked by an embarrassing sense of the complications to which this might lead. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- And the fact in itself still seemed harmless enough; only it was a fertile source of harmful complications. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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