词汇 | knotty |
释义 | knotty adjective uk /ˈnɒt.i/ us /ˈnɑː.t̬i/ knottyadjective (COMPLICATED)informal (of a problem or difficulty) complicated and difficult to solve: 错综复杂的;难于解决的,棘手的 It was a very knotty problem.那实在是一个棘手的问题。 Complicated and difficult to do advanced ambitious ambitiously another arduous formidable formidably get blood out of/from a stoneidiom grail gruelling onerous onerously overdemanding painstaking picnic toughen trickily tricky tuff ultra-sensitive knottyadjective (WOOD)with a lot of knots: 多节的 a knotty piece of wood多节的木头 Types of wood American elm Atlantic white cedar balk balsa wood bark basswood black locust boxwood cork elm matchwood MDF mulga oaken paulownia piny pitch pine ponderosa pine softwood three-ply knotty | American Dictionaryknotty adjective us/ˈnɑt̬·i/ (of a tree or piece of wood) covered with hard, dark areas where branches were joined to the tree: knotty pine Examples of knottyknotty After all, the paramount merit of his challenges is to highlight the knotty legal cruxes that judges handle by recourse to moral principles. Search for authority about the knotty points involved showed how little consideration had been given to them in this country. Most knotty is women's comparatively lesser public influence relative to men. The striking difference between the inner and outer planets is emphasized, while considerable space is given to the knotty problems attendant upon accretion of planetesimals. A lengthy exchange of pragmatic arguments, however, can be knotty. Numerous though the truly knotty cases may be in an immense legal system, they are vastly outnumbered by cases that can be handled readily. Only by moving in this direction will we be able to resolve these knotty problems effectively. Perhaps, the answer to the knotty problem of maintaining competency lies in a more holistic view. Researchers must trust the data more and the theories less, and build integrative rather than exclusionary models if they hope to resolve these knotty problems effectively. Conceptually she deals with the knotty puzzle mentioned earlier by dropping the idea of disapproval in favour of the sentiments of affirmation or acceptance which mark toleration as recognition. However, inasmuch as the complexity of enhancement techniques makes providing general policy challenging, a new regulatory body needs to be created to deal with the myriad of knotty issues. The text opens with an overview of colonial chieftaincy which is as lucid and concise an exposition of a notoriously knotty subject as one is likely to encounter. A more knotty question-that of the role of women in male industrial workers' households who worked in agriculture or petty commodity production or trade or retail-was not raised at all. I think, with him, that milk is the knotty problem that will have to be solved some time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although the election of 283 new division members26 resurrected the divisions, conflicting views about the nature and role of the divisions continued to pose a knotty problem. See all examples of knotty These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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