英汉词典

knotty 基本解释

• adj. 棘手的，难解决的；[木] 多节的；有结的

knotty 词态变化

knotty 中文词源

来自knot,结。即多结的，引申词义复杂的。参照Gordian knot.

knotty 英文词源

knotty (adj.)

mid-13c. (figurative use early 13c.), from knot (n.) + -y (2). Related: Knottiness.

knotty 英文释义

1. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve;

"a baffling problem"

"I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"

"a problematic situation at home"

2. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots;

"gnarled and knotted hands"

"a knobbed stick"

3. highly involved or intricate;

"the Byzantine tax structure"

"convoluted legal language"

"convoluted reasoning"

"intricate needlework"

"an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"

"the plot was too involved"

"a knotty problem"

"got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott

"tortuous legal procedures"

"tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

knotty 双语例句

1. The new man-agement team faces some knotty problems.

新的管理团队面临一些棘手的问题。

来自柯林斯例句

2. the knotty roots of the old oak tree

盘根错节的老橡树根

来自《权威词典》

3. Under his leadership, many knotty problems were smoothly solved.

在他的领导下, 许多伤脑筋的问题都迎刃而解.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4. She met with a lot of knotty problems.

她碰上了许多棘手的问题.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. This is a knotty passage.

这是一段复杂难懂的文字.

来自《用法词典》

knotty 实用场景例句

a knotty problem

棘手的问题

牛津词典

the knotty roots of the old oak tree

盘根错节的老橡树根

牛津词典

The new management team faces some knotty problems.

新的管理团队面临一些棘手的问题。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the knotty trunk of a hawthorn tree.

多节的山楂树干

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The knotty problem which affects production has been solved.

解决了影响快速达产的难题.

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The foxed the arrogant instructor with a knotty problem.

那位受训的队员故意用难题把傲慢的“教练”搞糊涂.

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With the rapid growth of floating population, the population management has become a knotty problem.

在当今的社会中流动人口的加剧, 对人口的管理是一个很难的问题.

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But how to develop logistics industry quickly and efficiently is a knotty problem China faces.

但是如何既快又好地经营物流是摆在我们面前的一个棘手的课题.

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Engineers would also have to solve some knotty packaging problems.

还有,工程师也必须能解决某些错综复杂的套装问题.

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Connected to this is the knotty matter of division.

与此相关联的是棘手的除法问题.

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The trainee foxed the arrogant instructor with a knotty problem.

那位受训的队员故意用难题把傲慢的教练搞糊涂.

辞典例句

This is a knotty passage.

这是一段复杂难懂的文字.

《用法词典》

He was scowling fearfully, and I judged that he was concocting a particularly knotty editorial.

他皱眉瞪眼,样子很可怕, 我估计他是在拼凑一篇特别伤脑筋的社论.

辞典例句

I judged that he was concocting a particularly knotty editorial.

我估计他是在拼凑一篇特别伤脑筋的社论.

辞典例句

Procure a solution a knotty problem.

找到了一个解决棘手问题的办法.

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Even the professor could not clarify the knotty point.

甚至教授也无法解决这个棘手问题.

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Presently, piglet early weaning diarrhea is a knotty disease in most pig farm.

仔猪早期断奶腹泻是目前养猪业比较棘手的一种疾病.

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They met to discuss knotty problems and talk them out to a point of mutual understanding.

他们开会讨论,解决棘手的问题,从而达成相互谅解.

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Under his leadership, many knotty problems were smoothly solved.

在他的领导下, 许多伤脑筋的问题都迎刃而解.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

She met with a lot of knotty problems.

她碰上了许多棘手的问题.

《简明英汉词典》

Fault detection in distribution network is being a worldwide knotty point for along time.

配电网单相接地时的故障选线问题,是国际上长期以来一直存在的技术难题.

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Guthrie Garver, known as Gus , was a small, quiet , knotty man.

人们习惯称之为格斯的格斯利·加弗, 个子矮小, 举止文雅, 让人捉摸不透.

辞典例句

The old man grasped the bowl in his shriveled, knotty fingers , muttering, uttering little grunts.

老人一边嘟嘟囔囔唠叨着, 一边用他那干瘪嶙峋的手抓住水碗.

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Ah yes, the knotty business of slaughter.

啊, 屠宰中棘手的问题来了.

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He nodded his head repeatedly as if he had managed to solve some knotty problem.

他不住地点着头,似乎幸而弄明白了一个疑难的问题.

子夜部分

Whether the Channel tunnel should be built or not is a knotty point.

该不该修英吉利海峡隧道,是一个难以决定的复杂问题.

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He had to discuss knotty points of Rousseau and Hegel with her.

他不得不和她讨论卢梭和黑格尔的那些深奥问题.

辞典例句

He delights to worry out knotty points in English.

他以绞尽脑汁来解决盘根错节般的项语问题为乐.

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I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast.

我遇到了早餐吃什么这个烦人的问题.

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