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单词

tortuous

读音
ˈtɔːrtʃuəs
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释义

adj. 拐弯抹角的;冗长费解的;弯弯曲曲的,曲折的

例句

The only road access is a tortuous mountain route.
惟一的通路是一条弯弯曲曲的山路。
In the intergranular spaces of rocks, however, fluid must flow around and between grains in a tortuous path; this winding path causes a resistance to flow.
然而,在粒间孔发育的岩石中,流体必须在颗粒周围的曲折通道中流动;而这种曲折通道会对其流动产生阻力。
Life is but a hard and tortuous journey.
人生即是一段艰难曲折的旅程。

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can make your life more magicalor less tortuous.I've learned from the people of my country
And like to know --if that path is tortuous enough, and so improbable,that no matter what you start with, we could be a singularity.
Maybe.But it's a question of how tortuous this path isfrom those frail beginnings, those seeds, all the way to life.
and as for the written word,I'm OK at it but it's a tortuous process of translation,and I don't feel it does the job.
Those are two very, very interesting questions.The first question is a tortuous path from geology up to RNAor something like that -- how did that all work?
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