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词汇 twisty
释义 twisty
adjective
uk /ˈtwɪs.ti/ us /ˈtwɪs.ti/
A twisty road, path, etc. has many turns:
They rode their bikes on the twisty back roads around Bear Mountain.
The route up the mountain is twisty and vertiginous, though now it is well protected by railings.
The kids loved the twisty flumes at the pool.
Synonyms
serpentineliterary
tortuous
bent into curves:
plants with twisty stems
Modern radishes can be white, long, and twisty.
(of the plot(= story) of a book, film, play, etc.) very complicated, with many surprising events or unexpected developments:
The drama has never had a big audience because its twisty espionage plot is too hard to follow.
This is a top-notch thriller that is so twisty you may forget to breathe.
The accident took place along the twisty, narrow road around the lake.
You will find it a steep and twisty climb through a dense forest on a path which is largely flooded when it rains.
The drivers roared round the corners and navigated a twisty, bendy and muddy course.
If you let the common boxwood grow naturally, it becomes a small, twisty tree with multiple trunks.
This is a twisty, amusing comedy thriller about a bored housewife getting drawn into the New York criminal underworld.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

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twisty
Basically, the village runs down a long and twisty hill.
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It is a very twisty road they are following, and they are always turning the corner.
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The road of unilateral devolution is a dangerous one; it is twisty and slippery.
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As it was a twisty road, that was obviously the kind of thing which ought not to have been happening.
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They were bumpy; they were narrow; they were twisty; they were steep.
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The road is rather twisty, it has many trees and it is dark in places.
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The car was travelling at 80 miles an hour on a little twisty road.
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Near the former village, the twisty road on the higher reaches is being reconstructed and has had a lot of attention from armies of workmen for the past few months.
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What we want to do is to trap the man who is going along twisty roads, among a lot of traffic, at over 30 miles an hour.
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It is twisty with a series of hairpin turns punctuated by short straights.
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It is one of the most challenging race tracks in the world, mainly due to its fast, hilly and twisty nature.
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This evocative two-part miniseries has a lot going for it: rich period design, an engagingly twisty plot, performances with depth, intriguing racial and class issues.
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Its three long straights, as well as a twisty infield section, asked for a setup compromise.
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The route is somewhat antiquated, concurrent entirely with other routes, and significantly longer than the twisty mainline.
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Bar ends can prove troublesome when negotiating twisty tracks between trees as they may hook around branches and cause a crash.
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