tortuous

1 Tuesday’s announcement is the culmination of a tortuous regulatory process that has spanned four presidential administrations.

2 The road may be tortuous, but they will win complete liberation in the end.

道路可能是曲折的, 但他们最后将会获得彻底解放.

3 It was tortuous watching the cars line our street that night, and our evening was dull.

4 Even to get to this point - the last step before entering the forbidden vault - has been a tortuous process.

5 It's almost as if the tortuous grammar were a mask, keeping self-revelation at bay.

6 Fortuitously, and through long and tortuous negotiations, a compromise was reached, and the DIA survives.

7 The parties must now go through the tortuous process of picking their candidates.

各政党现在必须进行挑选各自候选人这一迂回复杂的程序。

8 Improving regulation is a tortuous process, as new chemical rules show.

新的化学物品条例表明，完善管控过程曲折复杂。

9 It was only when I moved to a northern city that I noticed the tortuous relationship some people develop with religion.

10 They preceded him by many years and are part of a tortuous history with many players.

11 After three terrible Predator sequels, the Robert Rodriguez-produced Predators was a definite upturn earlier this year, if only because the series had previously plumbed the depths of tortuous banality.

12 With the situation this campaign experienced a tortuous development process from prosperity to decline.

这一运动随形势发展,由兴到衰,经历了一个曲折的发展过程.

13 On the tortuous drive through the mountains, Jake developed a torturous headache. trooper/trouper.

14 Getting the art out of the country was sometimes tortuous, sometimes remarkably straightforward, Nancy Dodge said in an interview on Thursday.

15 Development of the modern Chinese dance has followed a long and tortuous road.

现代舞在中国有着宽泛的定义和曲折的发展过程.

16 Her position as mistress of the estate is anomalous and discomfiting, and her negotiation through the customs of the Malagasy is both tortuous and instructive.

17 Mr. Martinez’s lawyers had applied to have the charges dismissed in hopes of removing him from the complex and tortuous case, in which other archaeology experts, and art dealers, are also charged.

18 It took all he could do to keep his cart from going over in the tortuous mountain trails.

他竭尽全力才算保住大车，没有在曲曲弯弯的山路上翻倒。

19 That’s a hard pill to swallow for a nation long trained — in some cases quite literally — to expect well-defined and often optimistic conclusions to tortuous sagas.

20 The district’s boundaries are unmistakably tortuous, encompassing sections of Baltimore, Howard, Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties and Baltimore city; one sliver in northeast Baltimore is narrower than two city blocks.

1 不诚实的

false lip unfair fraudulent sinister crooked dishonest deceitful mendacious falsehearted

2 扭曲的

wry

3 含混不清的

fuzzy ambiguous

4 拐弯抹角

indirect circuitous backhanded mealy-mouthed indirectly circuitously oblique hedge go all round the houses

5 弯弯曲曲的

twisty bendy wobbly windy flexuous curly-wurly twisting zigzag serpentine wiggly sinuous

6 不正直

twisted dishonest disingenuous unfairly disingenuously dishonesty unfairness indirection unfair crooked bent unrighteous unprincipled improbity

7 迂回

circular indirect winding roundabout devious sinuous circuitous circumferential periphrastic circumlocutory ambagious meandrous around round distantly circularly deviously circuit indirection circuity circumbendibus wheel detour turn fetch about fetch around fetch round

8 迂回的

circular indirect winding roundabout devious sinuous circuitous circumferential periphrastic circumlocutory ambagious meandrous

9 曲折的

crinkum-crankum indirect oblique meandering sinuous circuitous inflectional inflective meandrous zigzag anfractuous curvy convoluted serpentine devious wandering circumflex labyrinthian creeky

10 欺骗

tricky spurious illusory fiddling delusive jiggery-pokery try-on sell rip-off put-on take-in trick twist fraud cheat hype hustle deception fudge sham falsehood dishonesty deceit trickery guile stratagem boondoggle skulduggery hocus-pocus razzmatazz flimflam blague swizz chicane spruce diddle pettifog cozen two-time bamboozle illude bilk con buffalo hoax dupe gull mystify beguile hoodwink bunco hocus euchre befool do kid green cross lie string bite blind impose fool mock fox deceive sucker fiddle juggle jockey chisel humbug gammon under false colours bludge on on the fiddle play false stall off put one across fob off sell a a pup put it across take for a ride try it on make a fool of

11 骗人

two-tongued forked-tongued fake misleading wildcat deceptive crook spoof deceitful charlatan fly-by-night knavish cogged quackish trick

12 转弯抹角的

oblique sinuous vermiculate evasive backhanded

13 弯扭

snagged snaggy tortuosity

14 拐弯抹角的

indirect circuitous backhanded mealy-mouthed oblique

15 弯弯曲曲

twisting zigzag serpentine tortuously twisty sinuous twist

16 弯扭的

snagged snaggy

17 不正直的

twisted dishonest disingenuous dishonorable unfair crooked bent unrighteous unprincipled

18 不正当的

cold-deck wrongous cross foul unfair irregular illicit undue unjust crooked crook untrue wrongful oblique perverse unconscionable sinuous unrighteous surreptitious unwarrantable dirty unlawful devious kinky perverted adulterous thrawn raggy thievish adulterine

19 转弯抹角

oblique sinuous vermiculate tortuosity evasive backhanded beat about the bush

20 欺骗的

tricky spurious illusory fiddling delusive

21 蜿蜒

winding serpentine sinuous wind twist sweep wander

22 不正派的

bad crooked dishonest bent disreputable immoral immodest indecorous

23 不诚实

false lip unfair fraudulent sinister crooked dishonest deceitful mendacious falsehearted dishonesty insincerity two hearts

24 弯曲

curve curved curly skew crooked bent curvy torturous sinuous bowing hooked bowed contorted flexural bended inflectional thrawn wriggly waggly flexuous incurvate sinuate inflective Agee akimbo give set turn spring wind bend twist bow sweep nod crank distortion warp sinus winding crook curvature meander flexion inflection contortion flexure tortuosity sinuosity incurve crankle anfractuosity round knee yield curl sag quirk cast angle ramp buckle stoop inflect curvous tortuose tortile strombuliform reflex kinky curving scrolled snaky anfractuous flexional tipsily agley flexuosity tortility loop turning swerve bight crookedness tipsiness flection circumvolution circumflect embow start hook lean flex twists and turns game replicate askew circumflex aquiline swirl crinkle arch limpen fold

25 扭曲

wry wrench swirl contortion squirm turn twist torture warp writhe wrest contort

26 曲折

crinkum-crankum indirect oblique meandering sinuous circuitous inflectional inflective meandrous movement wind node crank inflection tortuosity nodus the ins and outs wandering zigzag devious circumflex labyrinthian creeky sinuation twist elbow detour labyrinth flexion sinuosity anfractuosity sinuate

27 盘绕的

crooked convoluted

28 不正直地

unfairly disingenuously

29 迂回曲折

flexuous tortuosity

30 不正当

cold-deck wrongous cross foul unfair irregular illicit undue unjust crooked crook untrue wrongful oblique perverse unconscionable sinuous unrighteous surreptitious unwarrantable wrong impropriety indirection foulness dirty unlawful devious kinky perverted adulterous thrawn raggy thievish adulterine tortuosity

31 骗人的

two-tongued forked-tongued fake misleading wildcat deceptive crook spoof deceitful charlatan fly-by-night knavish cogged quackish

32 弯曲的

curve curved curly skew crooked bent curvy torturous sinuous bowing hooked bowed contorted flexural bended inflectional thrawn wriggly waggly flexuous incurvate sinuate inflective curvous tortuose tortile strombuliform round reflex kinky curving scrolled snaky anfractuous flexional game replicate askew circumflex aquiline

33 委婉的

distant roundabout euphemistic circumambient circumferential

34 盘绕

crooked convoluted swirl twine convolution circumvolution convolve entwine enlace twist coil

35 不正派

bad crooked dishonest bent disreputable deformity immoral immodest indecorous immodesty indecorum indecorousness

36 盘旋的

spiral serpentine poised

37 蜿蜒的

winding serpentine sinuous

38 盘旋

spiral serpentine poised whirlabout convolution circle hover hawk yaw convolute stooge

39 委婉

distant roundabout euphemistic circumambient tortuosity circumferential