Adjective:
making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe;a baffling problem
I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
a problematic situation at home
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots;gnarled and knotted hands
a knobbed stick
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;the Byzantine tax structure
Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
convoluted legal language
convoluted reasoning
the plot was too involved
a knotty problem
got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering
Oh, what a tangled web we weave
tortuous legal procedures
tortuous negotiations lasting for months
tangled in knots or snarls;a mass of knotted string
snarled thread
knotty tear不连续撕裂knotty tearing曲折撕裂knotty pine多结松木knotty gneiss瘤状片麻岩knotty problem难题knotty wood多节木料a knotty point难题
近义词 hard硬的tough强硬的tricky棘手的thorny多刺的gnarly扭曲的awkward尴尬的complex复杂的knobbed有节的knotted打结的tangled纠缠的elusive难懂的tortuous弯曲的involved涉及的difficult困难的convoluted旋绕的snarly善于嚣叫的problematic问题的Byzantine拜占庭的snarled纠缠不清的baffling令人困惑的gnarled树木多瘤节的…complicated复杂难懂的problematical成问题的
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用作形容词This is aknottypassage.这是一段复杂难懂的文字。
She met with a lot ofknottyproblems.她碰上了许多棘手的问题。
It is almost impossible to skirt theknottyproblem.想回避这个棘手的问题几乎是不可能的。 Even so, by using his chosen questions like wedges, Mr. Kolakowski succeeds in splitting open even the knottiest systems.
即便如此，科拉柯夫斯基先生把像这些挑选的问题当作楔子一样使用，成功地切开最纠缠不清的体系。 chinafolklore
Grcinding cracking of bearing rings is always the knottiest problem to the bearing manufacturers.
轴承套圈的磨削裂纹历来是轴承生产厂家感到最棘手的问题。 chemyq
Perhaps the knottiest question in the end will be this: If the vice presidency is not in Clinton's future, what role will she be permitted to play at the convention?
也许最终最棘手的问题是：如果希拉里不能做奥巴马的副手，她在全国代表大会上的角色将如何定位？ yeeyan
The knottiest problem will be what to do with those who cannot be prosecuted but cannot sensibly be freed—and are still dangerous.
最棘手的问题将是如何处置那些不能被起诉，但危险度很高不能轻易释放的那些人。 ecocn