| 词汇 | arcane |
| 释义 | arcane adjective formaluk /ɑːˈkeɪn/ us /ɑːrˈkeɪn/ mysterious and known only by a few people: 神秘的;秘密的;晦涩难解的 He was the only person who understood all the arcane details of the agreement.他是唯一能看懂协议中所有那些晦涩难解的繁缛条文的人。 This argument may seem arcane to those not closely involved in the world of finance.对于那些不谙金融界事务的人而言，这种观点如同天书。 Difficult to understand abstruse abstrusely ambiguity ambiguous ambiguously esoterically fathomless fathomlessly garble get it into your thick headidiom labyrinthine lost non-intuitive obscurely obscurity unreadable verbiage verbosely verbosity wasted on someoneidiom arcane | American Dictionaryarcane adjective us/ɑrˈkeɪn/ complicated and therefore understood or known by only a few people: They worked hard to negotiate New York's arcane rules for getting on presidential ballots. Examples of arcanearcane But isn't there something gratuitous - perhaps even patronising - in seeing it 'revealed' in various facets, often arcane, of this or that argument? The sense of the occult as simply arcane is wrong in at least one important way. It demonstrated her belief that educational research at its best, rather than being somehow arcane, stems from the unique perspectives, experience and understanding of practitioners. These were not arcane debates, but the stuff of community interest, likely to move citizens when constitutions were judged by popular vote. Ordinary people had little understanding of or interest in the arcane complexities of revolutionary intrigue. It provided men with a limited, arcane, learning which improved neither their knowledge of the world nor their conduct and manners within it. I went to enhance my understanding of the intriguing and arcane world of architects' public relations and self-promotion. This enables the twins to replace discursive speech with a primordial yet arcane language that relies solely on aural perception. I suspect that many readers have been puzzled by the diversity of its themes : some tell me they thought the issue arcane. It should be emphasized that this is not an arcane point born of adherence to statistical dogma. While it might initially seem arcane and impossibly complex, it is invaluable for the narrative it provides and for the insights it offers. Complicating this individual dilemma with arcane opinion, let alone draconian policy, rarely if ever helps. This sounds arcane, but is surprisingly familiar territory. Strange guardians of the arcane, compositors got by, but have been swept aside by a new world. By contrast, the arcane details of wills are law and not custom. 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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