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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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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 Dictionary


knotty
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 knotty


knotty
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.
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Hansard archive

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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.
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