英[ˈtɔːtʃuəsli]美[ˈtɔːrtʃuəsli]
tortuously如何读
tortuously是什么意思
- adj.弯曲的；曲折的；盘旋的；居心叵测的；骗人的; 委婉的; 不正当的
tortuously词根
词根：tortuous
adj.tortuous 扭曲的，弯曲的；啰嗦的
n.tortuosity 曲折；弯曲度；迂回曲折
tortuously英英释义
adjective
marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding
a tortuous path
marked by devious or indirect tactics : crooked, tricky
a tortuous conspiracy
circuitous, involved
the tortuous jargon of legal forms
tortuously词源英文解释
Middle English, from Middle French tortueux, from Latin tortuosus, from tortus twist, from torquēre to twist
The first known use of tortuous was in the 15th century
tortuously儿童词典英英释义
torture1 of 2noun
distress of body or mind
the causing of great pain especially to punish or to obtain a confession
torture2 of 2verb
to cause great suffering to
to punish or force someone to do or say something by causing great pain
torture1 of 2noun
distress of body or mind
the causing of great pain especially to punish or to obtain a confession
torture2 of 2verb
to cause great suffering to
to punish or force someone to do or say something by causing great pain
torture1 of 2noun
distress of body or mind
the causing of great pain especially to punish or to obtain a confession
torture2 of 2verb
to cause great suffering to
to punish or force someone to do or say something by causing great pain
tortuousadjective
having many twists and turns
tortuously 例句
1 It is less tortuously self-analytical than many others in the sequence.
2 Hierarchies and judgments — past and present — tortuously strip bodies of their autonomy; in “Playthings” only children seem to notice these cruelties.
3 And it was tortuously similar to many of the others.
4 It was certainly more attention grabbing than Modest Mouse on the main stage who seemed to be rumbling away tortuously for the best part of half a day.
5 To such a historical city with profound civilization accumulation like Beijing, it was merely a short moment among tortuously long history.
对于文明积淀深厚的这个历史名城来说，这仅仅是其沧桑变幻的一个瞬间。
6 The road wound tortuously over an immense plain between marshes and quagmires, that often rendered it all but impossible to advance.
7 a tortuous mountain road marked by numerous hairpin turns
8 On the sea-side, to our left, lies the island of Salamis, so near the coast that the sea seems a calm inland lake, lying tortuously between the hills.
9 Gradually the ground grew rougher, the incline more steep; but Sirayo unerringly kept to a ridge that wound tortuously up among valleys whose growing depth could only be felt.
10 “Delacroix, lake of blood, haunted by evil angels,” he wrote while tortuously relating Delacroix’s achievement to that of his other idol, Edgar Allan Poe.
11 But Wednesday night, in the seventh and final game of the tortuously long season, Boston was much better and, once again, Luongo was bad.
12 In order to give the drill as wide a berth as possible, he had deployed widely to the left of the path, making his way somewhat tortuously through a rough lot of underbrush.
13 Viola’s video creates a palpable emotional sense of the very things that Barnes so tortuously tries to exemplify in his painting hang: a genuine universality that transcends individuals, and individual visions of the world.
14 Women's football has undertaken a tortuously long road on its journey to professionalism.
15 The three floors – one for sorting, one for washing and one for folding – get tortuously hot in the summer, he said.
16 Mrs. Martin had slowly and tortuously worked up to her climax, and she shot forth the last sentence with a jubilant ring.
17 a tortuous path up the mountain
18 The whole train must have extended many miles, and must have appeared from any of the eminences around like an enormous serpent, winding its way tortuously through the wild and desolate valleys.
19 The final whistle went on Sunday night and a long, tortuously slow walk to the tunnel followed, like a lonely and silent search for an explanation, but the central defender could find none.
20 And such parallel sanctions bite more quickly than those negotiated tortuously among the six.
这种双重制裁比六国喋喋不休讨论的措施能更快的起作用。