knotty

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英 [ˈnɒti]

美 [ˈnɑti]

是什么意思

adj.

（指木材）多结节的；多节瘤的；困难的；棘手的

英英释义

knotty[ 'nɔti ]

adj.
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
  "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"
  同义词：bafflingproblematicproblematicaltough
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
  同义词：gnarledgnarlyknottedknobbed
- highly complex or intricate
  "a knotty problem"
  同义词：Byzantineconvolutedinvolvedtangledtortuous
- tangled in knots or snarls
  同义词：knottedsnarledsnarly

学习怎么用

词组短语

knotty problem难解决的问题

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

This is a knotty passage.
这是一段复杂难懂的文字。
She met with a lot of knotty problems.
她碰上了许多棘手的问题。
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。

权威例句

Why so High? A Knotty Story
The jerky and knotty dynamics of RNA.
A knotty turnabout?: Akt1 as a metastasis suppressor
Knotty-Centrality: Finding the Connective Core of a Complex Network
DNA Topology and Topoisomerases: Teaching a "Knotty"Subject.
Magneto-Hydrodynamical Models of the Knotty, Collimated Jet in Hen 2-90
An Icy, Bipolar Proto-Planetary Nebula with Knotty Jets: IRAS 22036+5306
The Hypersonic, Bipolar, Knotty Outflow from the Engraved Hourglass Planetary Nebula MYCN 18
COMPOSITE STRUCTURES HAVING THE APPEARANCE OF KNOTTY WOOD AND METHODS OF MAKING SUCH STRUCTURES
A Bipolar, Knotty Outflow with Velocities of 500 Kilometers per Second or above from the Engraved Hourglass Planetary Nebula MyCn 18