| 词汇 | tortuousness |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | tortuousness noun[ U ] uk /ˈtɔː.tʃu.əs.nəs/ us /ˈtɔːr.tʃu.əs.nəs/ the quality of not being direct or simple, or of having many turns and changes of direction: 转弯抹角;弯曲 His speech had a curious mixture of directness and tortuousness.他的讲话既直接又拐弯抹角，这是很奇特的。 The tortuousness of the roads affected cars more than goods vehicles.弯弯曲曲的道路对汽车的影响比对货运车辆的影响更大。 See tortuous The sheer tortuousness of the bureaucracy creates a seemingly impenetrable wall. The whole of this speech is remarkable for tortuousness of arrangement, and round-about expression. the tension and tortuousness of family relationships Complexity advanced all-singing baroque baroquely be more to something than meets the eyeidiom fancily finicky fractally high-tech indirectly non-basic onerousness ornate ornately over-elaborate tortuous tortuously twisty ultra-sophisticated wheels within wheelsidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Bending, twisting and curving Examples of tortuousnesstortuousness There is hardly time for the lawyers, let alone the clients, to understand the tortuousness of that bizarre anachronism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another pathologist also emphasises the tortuousness, the lack of clarity and how hard the language is to follow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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