| 词汇 | tortuously |
| 释义 | tortuously adverb uk /ˈtɔː.tʃu.əs.li/ us /ˈtɔːr.tʃu.əs.li/ with many turns and changes of direction: 彎彎曲曲地;曲折地 I head northeast, along a road that twists and turns tortuously.我沿着一条蜿蜒曲折的路向东北方向走。 a tortuously twisting journey down through banana plantations沿着香蕉种植园蜿蜒而下的一段路 in a way that is not direct or simple: Some things that seemed simple to us have turned out to be tortuously difficult. The plot is tortuously complicated. See tortuous The road winds tortuously through a succession of tiny villages at the heart of the mountain range. The process has proved tortuously slow. He feels the questions are tortuously complicated. Bending, twisting and curving arch your back ball up bendy bent bowed distorted distortion entwine flex flexion snakily swirling swirlingly swoopy tangle wrap something around someone/something wriggle wristy writhe zigzag You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Complexity Examples of tortuouslytortuously Finally, while some presentational failings are probably of linguistic derivation, the prose is often tortuously obscure, and littered with repetitions, proving the need for much more rigorous copy-editing. Have not the criteria been carefully, not to say tortuously, selected to produce a predetermined political outcome? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 High technical knowledge is applied directly and not tortuously under it, and there is therefore a saving of money and of energy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead, the list relies on tortuously selected criteria that can be explained only in terms of producing that precise list. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some have had to sell off precious assets to stay alive and others have had tortuously to renegotiate their arrangements with their bankers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That matter should be addressed, as it would help carers, as well as everyone else who has to go through the tortuously complex benefits process. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It comprises a chain of steep-sided lava domes with glassy, tortuously jointed lava, such as hornblende-phyric basalt. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The mine is mainly upper-surface and progresses tortuously, ever widening. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She encapsulates what she finds in a tortuously complex computer game, knowing that the truth is never likely to be uncovered. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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