| 单词 | complicated |
| 释义 | complicated (kɒmplɪkeɪtɪd ) adjective B1 If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with. The situation in Lebanon is very complicated. ...a very complicated voting system. Synonyms: involved, difficult, puzzling, troublesome Collocations: complicated array It might be better to plump for some good old-fashioned susbsidies over a complicated array of cod-market incentives, too. Times, Sunday Times You must now navigate your way through an even more complicated array of fees and charges. Times, Sunday Times Two performers had been injured on the show's complicated array of trapezes. Times, Sunday Times Menus of options may be several levels deep and offer a complicated array of possibilities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was a complicated concept, but its purpose was clear. Times, Sunday Times Note that in modern parlance, this kind of operation might be called defragmentation or garbage collection; data compression nowadays refers to a different, more complicated concept. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He can take big, complicated concepts and quickly weave a few entertaining stories and snappy metaphors around them to make them more digestible. Times, Sunday Times These vocabularies tend to deal with more complicated concepts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The show was aimed spreading simple religious messages and morals to young television viewers, while not confusing them with complicated concepts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In it she unpacks the complicated dynamics of female relationships. Times, Sunday Times This impressive mapping of the complicated dynamics of a plurality of titles across the industry complements previous studies of magazines themselves, and merits replication. The Times Literary Supplement This property suggests that complicated dynamics arise by the existence of a homoclinic point. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As my breaking-up friends realised, there's nothing like unfinished business to perpetuate complicated emotions. Times, Sunday Times It takes another songwriter to recognise the difficulty of writing sad, simple songs about complicated emotions. Times, Sunday Times Anyone with a yen for sad, simple songs about complicated emotions should hasten this way. Times, Sunday Times She joins his mine-clearing charity, partly to work out her complicated emotions about him. Times, Sunday Times They instinctively knew how to identify a whole range of colorful and complicated emotions in themselves-and others. Christianity Today Many pensioners with bigger pots may have calculated their tax-free lump sum around whether they would end up as a higher rate taxpayer - a complicated equation. Times,Sunday Times We tried a range of complicated equations combining the number of days of rest a team had with the distance that they had been travelling. Times, Sunday Times Start with e=mc2 and move on through a2+b2=c2 to other more complicated equations to ind out how maths can describe the physical and conceptual world. Times, Sunday Times This represents the multi-compartment model with a number of curves that express complicated equations in order to obtain an overall curve. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 More complicated equations can sometimes be expressed as the sum of functions of the three variables. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Together, they came up with a ridiculously complicated formula that involves every function of the two millennia we've been doing maths. Times, Sunday Times And today we can reveal the complicated formula behind what goes in its tubs. The Sun A complicated formula determines the second payment, which could amount to nearly as much as the first. Times, Sunday Times No doubt the pay consultants have a complicated formula for that. Times, Sunday Times The more general invariant mass (calculated with a more complicated formula) loosely corresponds to the rest mass of a system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I don't care for them either, but it's frustrating - and boring - to see a complicated issue reduced to predictable archetypes. Times, Sunday Times That will be a complicated issue. Times, Sunday Times But this seemingly sensible approach to a complicated issue has not assuaged the critics who equate the attempt to create a national history curriculum with government-sponsored mind control. Times, Sunday Times But confident assertion in a book that presents only one side of a complicated issue cannot substitute for careful, nuanced discussion, making use of statistical arguments among others. The Times Literary Supplement It's a more complicated issue. Christianity Today The copy you supplied to me showed it was a fairly complicated matter but the way you had set it out was totally clear. Times, Sunday Times This was a horrendously complicated matter and needed cold towels wrapped round various heads to try to get to grips with it. Times, Sunday Times How on earthwould you navigate the complicated matter of introductions and manage to carve out time to spend together as adults? Times, Sunday Times Both sides are going to have to sit down several times because it's a complicated matter. The Sun This makes calculations of future values a more complicated matter. Times, Sunday Times But for others, it's a more complicated mix of finding life easier and nicer at home than in an overpriced shared flat. Times, Sunday Times Instead, drivers are fed simulated sounds as they 'drive', sounds made from a complicated mix of artificially generated noise and recordings of real cars. Times, Sunday Times Today's design environments are a complicated mix of design tools containing proprietary applications and associated databases, and with incompatible file formats and syntaxes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was an immensely complicated mixture of expensive herbs that took hours to prepare and tasted horrible. The Sun Every house, on the other hand, has its own individual and complicated mixture of history, sentimental attachments, decorating triumphs — and mistakes — and the imprint of the lives lived in it. Times, Sunday Times And second because with our siblings, rather than our friends, we're happy to accept a more uneasy and complicated mixture of rivalry and trust. Times, Sunday Times He remains the same complicated mixture of shrewd insight, intellectual sweep, doubt and indecision. Times, Sunday Times He was diagnosed as suffering from a complicated mixture of myeloid and lymphoblastic leukaemia. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Given all the complicated negotiations over the bailouts when he was in charge, his old-fashioned approach may well have been wise. Times, Sunday Times He added that the insurer had not sought to claw back any of the fees that it had already paid as this would have complicated negotiations with suppliers. Times, Sunday Times That complicated negotiations - leaving him fearing the worst. The Sun Many players already have lucrative image-rights deals at club level, which has complicated negotiations. Times, Sunday Times After complicated negotiations the government and king accepted the conditions for the armistice. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It involves a complicated pattern of hand moves and claps at various parts of the body, following and/or imitating the percussion instruments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The miniatures are usually set off with a complicated pattern made with gold dissolved in aqua regia. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Look down, and you will often see a solid phalanx of greys along the waterfront, and behind them the commons making complicated patterns and angles with each other. Times, Sunday Times These gratings also tend to have higher efficiencies, and allow for the inclusion of complicated patterns into a single grating. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Intransitive verbs show more complicated patterns of agreement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This method allows for the unfolding of a complicated plot, as well as an account of the social and political changes of the period. The Times Literary Supplement However, there are also many lighter moments as the complicated plot unfurls. Times, Sunday Times The greatest departure came in the screenplay, which elegantly simplified the complicated plot, yet somehow kept intact the main storylines. Times, Sunday Times And for those who moaned at the slowness and complicated plot, you have entirely missed the point. Times, Sunday Times In general, novels that combine trendy text-within-texts, switches between eras, complicated plot strands and multiple points of view can quickly become tiresome. Times, Sunday Times However, that involves a more complicated procedure. Times, Sunday Times Why such a long and complicated procedure? Times, Sunday Times The complicated procedure not only requires a specialized machine to create it, but also the method used has manufacturing problems. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Starting a group outside of government sanctions was a complicated procedure, so the two decided to go at it together. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Heat returns as a revenant, re-animated through a complicated procedure called necro-rise. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's a more complicated process than you might think. Times, Sunday Times A complicated process using filters and mattes, bluescreen gave much greater realism than the previous device of back-projection. Times, Sunday Times But tracking someone on the internet involves a complicated process of piecing together a cyber jigsaw puzzle - and help from internet providers. Times, Sunday Times Agreeing the content of a history curriculum can be a contentious and complicated process. Times, Sunday Times They have to go through a complicated process called the 're-entry draft', under which another club could nab them against their will. Times, Sunday Times It's not like it's a complicated recipe. The Sun The morning course covered four quite complicated recipes, basic kitchen hygiene and a briefing on nutrition. Times, Sunday Times Then you can progress to more complicated recipes. The Sun Unlike the current vogue for complicated recipes, her instructions are simple and the number of servings large. Times, Sunday Times You don't have to cut out any major food groups or struggle with complicated recipes and unusual ingredients. The Sun A complicated relationship that definitely seems to work. Times, Sunday Times As a second series comes to our screens, there are some complicated relationship shenanigans but nothing that matters in the slightest. Times, Sunday Times He was right, of course, but people nowadays have a more complicated relationship with fame. Times, Sunday Times For 90 minutes we are served a comprehensive consideration of food and our often complicated relationship to it. Times, Sunday Times The young engineer struggled to define their intense but complicated relationship. Times, Sunday Times The resulting product still consists of ordered pairs, but with a slightly more complicated rule for multiplication. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Nothing in the concession's complicated rules seems to outlaw such intergenerational subsidies. Times, Sunday Times Follow the slightly complicated rules designed to ensure transparency and in return you will be protected by the law. Times, Sunday Times Defenders of intricate ethics note that the legal system shows that people can follow complicated rules. The Times Literary Supplement Under the complicated rules of the auction, they will be able to take him back now simply by matching the highest bid. Times, Sunday Times I ended up in this very complicated situation. The Sun It's a complicated situation from which you need to extricate yourself. Times, Sunday Times You have the right mix of tact and quiet determination and can untangle a complicated situation at work. The Sun Unfortunately, when he visits his little patch of potential paradise for the first time, he discovers a complicated situation. Times, Sunday Times In fact, it may seem like you're facing one complicated situation and perplexing dilemma after another. Times, Sunday Times As we journey, we encounter myriad attempts to make meaning of an impossibly complicated story. Christianity Today You can spend a lot of time just talking to people because you are paranoid about missing a snippet of this vast and complicated story. The Sun Telling a complicated story was obviously the priority. Times, Sunday Times What's more, despite the occasional services of an unseen narrator, the complicated story requires further long-winded explanation. The Sun The answer isn't fancy graphics or a complicated story; it's the simple science of fun. Times,Sunday Times The collagen untwists into separate strands that, as they cool, don't reform into their original complicated structure and instead form a net-like gel. Times, Sunday Times No meaningful signage anywhere in a highly complicated structure. Times, Sunday Times It was clearly a complicated structure with what appeared to be a central stem and branches coming from it on either side. Times, Sunday Times The huge network of companies established by the former prime minister since leaving office, and the complicated structure obscuring its earnings, has been a constant source of controversy. Times, Sunday Times Most have a complicated structure. Times, Sunday Times It's a complicated subject this, and bears much thinking about. Times, Sunday Times A referendum, even one dealing with a complicated subject, would prompt precisely the kind of public engagement that politicians are desperate to encourage. Times, Sunday Times Still, my newfound love for soup might have been a less complicated subject ... Times, Sunday Times However, experts are worried that the specialist advisers might be poorly qualified to give guidance on such a complicated subject as pensions. Times, Sunday Times They're all complicated subject matters. Times, Sunday Times Critics say it will cost 250million for voting machines to count the complicated system. The Sun Growing demand, limited budgets and a historically fragmented, complicated system create real challenges. Times, Sunday Times They work on a complicated system of contracting athletes and paying them appearance fees. ST If you leave it too late, you might not be able to install a complicated system - or it will cost you extra. Times, Sunday Times Under the complicated system the count continues until one candidate gets more than half the votes. The Sun The result brings a cool and elegant logic to a complicated task. Times, Sunday Times We know it's going to be a complicated task but it's possible. The Sun Therefore, the presence of an audience causes an individual to do better on a simple task or worse on a more complicated task. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This approach allows the possibly very complicated task to be broken into smaller tasks which may either by tackled in sequence or divided amongst members of a design team. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Later developments included a second button for more complicated tasks. The Sun It required a fiendishly complicated series of events to go precisely right. Times, Sunday Times For the first time, retirees will have to make active decisions in a fiendishly complicated field. Times, Sunday Times Compared to the fiendishly complicated and notoriously unreliable internal combustion engine, the electric car was clean, mechanically simple and easy to operate. The Times Literary Supplement The committee that drafted the plan has identified three other factors that make the scheme fiendishly complicated. Times, Sunday Times Fiendishly complicated moves are meticulously synchronised with an equally complex sound tape. Times, Sunday Times No meaningful signage anywhere in a highly complicated structure. Times, Sunday Times Tax credits are highly complicated and the extent of the cuts will only be properly understood when pay packets are opened next spring. Times, Sunday Times This could help to clear the way for a demerger, but will be highly complicated. Times, Sunday Times Some birds, such as the fawn-breasted bowerbird, are capable of highly complicated mimicry. Times, Sunday Times He sketched wacky inventions that used highly complicated methods to do simple tasks. The Sun The introduction of rules to put a floor under alcohol prices risks being needlessly complicated. Times, Sunday Times It was also needlessly complicated. Times, Sunday Times After he introduced a 60 per cent price hike and turned a popular, easy-to-use service into a needlessly complicated one, 800,000 customers took their money elsewhere. Times, Sunday Times I also couldn't believe how needlessly complicated the four-wheel-drive system was. Times, Sunday Times The increase, however, will be offset by changes to overly complicated pay packages. Times, Sunday Times It's exciting and the technology to do this doesn't seem overly complicated. Times, Sunday Times The plan was arguably the greatest metaphor we have for big government; wasteful, bloated and overly complicated. Times, Sunday Times They blame the existing education system for being overly complicated. Times,Sunday Times There were products that were overly complicated. Times, Sunday Times I requested that my complaint about the unnecessarily complicated and time-consuming application system be passed to those responsible for coming up with this daft process. Times, Sunday Times He added that the energy market was becoming unnecessarily complicated as ministers put more obligations on companies. Times, Sunday Times It's also unnecessarily complicated, hysterically presented, tweely conceived, and made with great craft. Times, Sunday Times A policy of only announcing the running order on the day meant that planning your day in advance was unnecessarily complicated. Times, Sunday Times Finding a way to inject common sense and humanity into the unnecessarily complicated, formalistic statutory scheme. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 复杂的 Japanese: 複雑な |
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