tortuous

英語

詞源

源自中古英語 tortuous、tortuose，源自盎格魯-諾曼語和古法語 tortuos，源自拉丁語 tortuōsus，源自tortus (「纏繞」)。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈtɔːt͡ʃuːəs/

• 音頻 (南英格蘭)：

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• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈtɔɹt͡ʃuəs/

形容詞

tortuous (比較級 more tortuous，最高級 most tortuous)

1. (常比喻義) 繞的，繞來繞去的，複雜紛繁的，拐彎抹角的
   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, 第 1 卷, Porter & Coates，第 243 頁:

     The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.

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   • 1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, 「Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean」, 出自 Trains Illustrated，第 91 頁:

     The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.

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   • 2007 October 6, 「Slogging on the Home Front」, editorial in The New York Times,

     It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846684777，第 109 頁:

     But the early Tubes still tended to follow the public streets in order to save money, hence some tortuous curves.

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2. (占星術) 本詞語需要翻譯為漢語。請協助添加，並移除{{rfdef}}模板。
   • 1872, Walter William Skeat, Chaucer's A Treatise on the Astrolabe:

     Infortunate ascendent tortuous.

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3. (棄用) 有害的，中傷的

用法說明

• 本詞有很強的負面色彩，可能是受到了發音相近的torturous的影響。
• 勿與法律用詞tortious，及torturous相混淆。

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