Tortuous
['tɔːtʃʊəs;-jʊəs] or ['tɔrtʃuəs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not straightforward; 'his tortuous reasoning' .
(adj.) marked by repeated turns and bends; 'a tortuous road up the mountain'; 'winding roads are full of surprises'; 'had to steer the car down a twisty track' .
埃尔莎整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
(a.) Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
(a.) Injurious: tortious.
(a.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
校對:莫蒂默
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Crooked, sinuous, circuitous, curved, curvilinear, curvilineal, sinuate, sinuated, winding, serpentine, bending in and out.[2]. Perverse, circuitous, roundabout, indirect.
編輯:奥马尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Devious, circuitous, anfractuous, ambiguous, complicated, sinuous, deceitful,crooked, twisting, indirect, sinister, indexed
ANT:Right, straight, direct, rectilinear, straightforward, undeviating
手打:利
解釋/意思:
adj. twisted winding: (fig.) deceitful.—adj. Tor′tuōse twisted: wreathed: winding.—n. Tortuos′ity state of being tortuous.—adv. Tor′tuously.—n. Tor′tuousness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Through this valley the river meanders in the most tortuous way, varying in direction to all points of the compass. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Bayous Baxter and Macon are narrow and tortuous, and the banks are covered with dense forests overhanging the channel. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Just beyond the gorge the valley is narrow, and the creek so tortuous that it has to be crossed a great many times in the course of the first mile. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- We discover a man of great imaginative power but tortuous in the Arab fashion, and with most of the virtues and defects of the Bedouin. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And in no other regard do we find the rich tortuous humanity of the American story so finely displayed as in regard to slavery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A small stove, used occasionally in the winter, was connected to the chimney by a tortuous pipe. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The distance would probably be greater by the tortuous bayous through which this new route would carry us. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The way led through a maze of tortuous corridors, unlighted save for the wavering light they carried. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- It is narrow, very tortuous, and fringed with a very heavy growth of timber, but it is deep. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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