Labyrinth
['læb(ə)rɪnθ] or ['læbərɪnθ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.
(n.) Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.
(n.) Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.
(n.) An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.
(n.) The internal ear. See Note under Ear.
(n.) A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal.
(n.) A pattern or design representing a maze, -- often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.
手打:列侬
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Maze, perplexity, intricacy.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Maze, complexity, bewilderment, involution, perplexity, inexplicable,difficulty
ANT:Clue, explication, elimination, enucleation
錄入:泰茜
解釋/意思:
n. a place full of inextricable windings: (orig.) a building consisting of halls connected by intricate passages: an arrangement of tortuous passages in which it is difficult to find the way out: an inexplicable difficulty a perplexity: (anat.) the cavities of the internal ear.—adjs. Labyrinth′al Labyrinth′ian Labyrinth′ine pertaining to or like a labyrinth: winding: intricate: perplexing; Labyrinth′iform having the form of a labyrinth: intricate.—n. Labyrinth′odon a race of extinct gigantic amphibians found in the Permian Carboniferous and Triassic strata so called from the mazy pattern exhibited on a transverse section of the teeth of some genera.
錄入:库尔特
娱乐性解釋/意思:
If you dream of a labyrinth, you will find yourself entangled in intricate and perplexing business conditions, and your wife will make the home environment intolerable; children and sweethearts will prove ill-tempered and unattractive. If you are in a labyrinth of night or darkness, it foretells passing, but agonizing sickness and trouble. A labyrinth of green vines and timbers, denotes unexpected happiness from what was seemingly a cause for loss and despair. In a network, or labyrinth of railroads, assures you of long and tedious journeys. Interesting people will be met, but no financial success will aid you on these journeys.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Her severe face had no thread of relaxation in it, by which any explorer could have been guided to the gloomy labyrinth of her thoughts. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I saw such a perfect labyrinth of troubles involved in this proceeding that I determined to feel my ground, as it were. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Everything was gone, walled in, with spikes on top of the walls, and one must ignominiously creep between the spiky walls through a labyrinth of life. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Behind the first cavity is a second cavity so complex and irregular that it is called the labyrinth of the ear. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I have consorted long with grief, entered the gloomy labyrinth of madness, and emerged, but half alive. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Is New York such a labyrinth? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- This labyrinth is filled with a fluid in which are spread out the delicate sensitive fibers of the auditory nerves; and it is to these that the vibrations must be transmitted. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I mention this in this place, of a fixed purpose, because it is the clew by which I am to be followed into my poor labyrinth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Those who have visited mines, and have gone into the heart of the underground labyrinth, know how difficult it is for fresh air to make its way to the miners. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- We walk the pathless mazes of society, vacant of joy, till we hold this clue, leading us through that labyrinth to paradise. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Slow in remarking, he was logical in reasoning: having once seized the thread, it had guided him through a long labyrinth. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- So we only groped through the dismal labyrinth of St. Callixtus, under the Church of St. Sebastian. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He can't be expected to know much of such a labyrinth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He entered the Labyrinth (which may have been the Cnossos Palace) by the aid of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, and slew the Minotaur. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Cretan labyrinth was a building as stately, complex, and luxurious as any in the ancient world. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- How little I knew then of the windings of the labyrinths which were still to mislead me! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
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