figurative. Something intricate, involved, or difficult to trace out or explain; a tangle or difficulty; a knotty point or problem. Gordian knot: see…
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun] > knotty point, crux (3) knotc1000 figurative. Something intricate, involved, or difficult to trace out or explain; a tangle or difficulty; a knotty point or problem. Gordian knot: see… the milk in the coconut1840 colloquial (originally U.S.). the milk in the coconut: a puzzling fact or circumstance; (also) a crux. crux1852 figurative. A difficulty which it torments or troubles one greatly to interpret or explain, a thing that puzzles the ingenuity; as ‘a textual… |
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