tortuous
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[编辑]源自中古英語 tortuous、tortuose,源自盎格魯-諾曼語和古法語 tortuos,源自拉丁語 tortuōsus,源自tortus (“缠绕”)。
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[编辑]tortuous (比較級 more tortuous,最高級 most tortuous)
- (常比喻義) 绕的,绕来绕去的,复杂纷繁的,拐弯抹角的
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, 第 1 卷, Porter & Coates,第 243 頁:
- The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
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- 1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, 出自 Trains Illustrated,第 91 頁:
- The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
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- 2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in The New York Times,
- It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846684777,第 109 頁:
- But the early Tubes still tended to follow the public streets in order to save money, hence some tortuous curves.
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- Infortunate ascendent tortuous.
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- (棄用) 有害的,中伤的
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