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单词 complicated
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Definition of complicated in English:

complicated

adjective ˈkɒmplɪkeɪtɪdˈkɑmpləˌkeɪdəd
  • 1Consisting of many interconnecting parts or elements; intricate.

    a complicated stereo system
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The background is simple enough - although it gets fiendishly complicated later on.
    • They looked a little like hieroglyphics, but a lot more complicated.
    • Finally, the peasants had to deal with a complicated system of officials and private agents who certainly did not work together very smoothly, and each one of whom never forgot his private interests.
    • They seem no more than highly complicated computers with elements of randomness to me.
    • The mechanisms used by Enigma for encryption appear intricate and complicated, and a basic Enigma machine had over 10 possible keys which is more than some modern algorithms.
    • It's essential for language that you can always put together simple elements to make more complicated elements.
    • These are intricate contraptions requiring complicated computer programming and meticulous physical refinement and testing.
    • The dishes have lost a central organising coherence and consist of multiple, disparate, complicated elements.
    • The country has sophisticated forest legislation which is so complicated and intricate [it runs to 10,000 pages] that even forestry officials can hardly work it out.
    • Yes, in a way it resembled the shell of a snail, but this was much more intricate, complicated, and beautiful.
    • He probably thought deep and philosophical things in his head that were too intricate and complicated to explain or talk about.
    • And this is the more so true because, in every strand of this complicated, intricate web of values meet the contending forces of partisan politics.
    • Today gymnastics has become very complicated and girls perform elements that I or my fellow team members never dreamed of.
    • Gymnastics has rapidly developed during recent years and new complicated elements have been introduced.
    • The success of the London Underground map is in its portrayal of an exceedingly complicated system in a way that is mostly accurate and mostly useful.
    • The money trail is, as are most money trails, a bit complicated.
    • This is when you start adding in complicated elements to your work.
    • We are all for complicated elements but, I'd say, with an elegant style of performance.
    • Though there are no complicated rising signs or intricate charts to deal with, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.
    • The transfer principle has a proof, but the proof is rather intricate, long, complicated, and a little boring.
    Synonyms
    complex, intricate, involved, convoluted, tangled, elaborate, impenetrable, knotty, tricky, thorny, serpentine, labyrinthine, tortuous, cumbersome, byzantine, daedalian, gordian
    1. 1.1 Involving many different and confusing aspects.
      a long and complicated saga
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In fact, it is just too confusing and unnecessarily complicated.
      • There is a sense that in some intangible fashion the country is simply too big, too confusing, too complicated to be governed effectively.
      • That situation reflects the necessity of different approaches to capture different aspects of a very complicated historical and contemporary reality.
      • Avoid those who try to conceal what they are doing, tell you it's too complicated or use confusing and unnecessary jargon.
      • I have to admit, you made things a bit more complicated for us.
      • Many of course arrive here as refugees, which adds a further complex element to an already complicated situation.
      • Some news items were too complicated to explain to the public.
      • Applying feng shui to your own home or work place need not be overly complicated nor expensive.
      • Life for him has become absolutely simple as it has become incredibly complicated for his spouse and family.
      • As you get to the more complicated and perplexing aspects of physical science you reach a quagmire in having a unified answer.
      • Even my views on physical punishment in the classroom are different and more complicated than your correspondent implies.
      • The series was intended to look at this complicated issue from different angles.
      • You see this very, very deep ambivalence on both sides that I think makes the political situation very complicated.
      • A single-pointed approach is important when situations get complicated, confused or out of hand.
      • He went on, however, to draw attention to what he described as one critical distinction, and in doing so may have created further confusion in this already complicated and difficult area.
      • As I said, why do companies have to make things so complicated?
      • A survey of small businesses has found that more than a quarter have admitted they made the wrong IT purchases because they were confused by overly complicated technical jargon.
      • It is simple to follow and will not confuse the reader with complicated jargon or difficult concepts, yet its potential benefits are large.
      • You need a degree in applied math fully to understand the complicated way the different tariffs interact with one another but, generally, costs have been dropping at a reasonable rate.
      • It gets more complicated when countries with different cultures and values are included in the discussion.
      Synonyms
      complex, intricate, involved, convoluted, tangled, elaborate, impenetrable, knotty, tricky, thorny, serpentine, labyrinthine, tortuous, cumbersome, byzantine, daedalian, gordian
  • 2Medicine
    Involving complications.

    complicated appendicitis
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Meanwhile, women with complicated pregnancies requiring the services of an obstetrician have to travel three hours round trip to find a doctor.
    • Serotypes of isolates from 56 newborns after a preterm or complicated birth whose diagnosis was not specified, were not included in the study.
    • In conclusion, it remains beyond doubt that treatment of empyema and complicated parapneumonic effusions is multidisciplinary.
    • Knowledge of Doppler flow velocimetry of the foetal MCA may assist in perinatal diagnosis and management of complicated pregnancies.
    • Outpatient treatment is not recommended in women with severe sepsis or complicated pyelonephritis, or in men.

Derivatives

  • complicatedly

  • adverb
    • This system can repair extremely small and complicatedly shaped defects on photomasks, such as phase shift masks and binary masks, with high accuracy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Oil prices in the world market continued to change complicatedly, rising to the level of US$58.28 per barrel, then falling to around US$50 per barrel, and finally gradually going up to US$54.20 per barrel on April 26th.
  • complicatedness

  • noun
 
 

Definition of complicated in US English:

complicated

adjectiveˈkämpləˌkādədˈkɑmpləˌkeɪdəd
  • 1Consisting of many interconnecting parts or elements; intricate.

    a complicated stereo system
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We are all for complicated elements but, I'd say, with an elegant style of performance.
    • It's essential for language that you can always put together simple elements to make more complicated elements.
    • Today gymnastics has become very complicated and girls perform elements that I or my fellow team members never dreamed of.
    • Gymnastics has rapidly developed during recent years and new complicated elements have been introduced.
    • And this is the more so true because, in every strand of this complicated, intricate web of values meet the contending forces of partisan politics.
    • The country has sophisticated forest legislation which is so complicated and intricate [it runs to 10,000 pages] that even forestry officials can hardly work it out.
    • This is when you start adding in complicated elements to your work.
    • The dishes have lost a central organising coherence and consist of multiple, disparate, complicated elements.
    • He probably thought deep and philosophical things in his head that were too intricate and complicated to explain or talk about.
    • Finally, the peasants had to deal with a complicated system of officials and private agents who certainly did not work together very smoothly, and each one of whom never forgot his private interests.
    • The mechanisms used by Enigma for encryption appear intricate and complicated, and a basic Enigma machine had over 10 possible keys which is more than some modern algorithms.
    • The transfer principle has a proof, but the proof is rather intricate, long, complicated, and a little boring.
    • They looked a little like hieroglyphics, but a lot more complicated.
    • The money trail is, as are most money trails, a bit complicated.
    • Yes, in a way it resembled the shell of a snail, but this was much more intricate, complicated, and beautiful.
    • These are intricate contraptions requiring complicated computer programming and meticulous physical refinement and testing.
    • The background is simple enough - although it gets fiendishly complicated later on.
    • They seem no more than highly complicated computers with elements of randomness to me.
    • Though there are no complicated rising signs or intricate charts to deal with, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.
    • The success of the London Underground map is in its portrayal of an exceedingly complicated system in a way that is mostly accurate and mostly useful.
    Synonyms
    complex, intricate, involved, convoluted, tangled, elaborate, impenetrable, knotty, tricky, thorny, serpentine, labyrinthine, tortuous, cumbersome, byzantine, daedalian, gordian
    1. 1.1 Involving many different and confusing aspects.
      a long and complicated saga
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You need a degree in applied math fully to understand the complicated way the different tariffs interact with one another but, generally, costs have been dropping at a reasonable rate.
      • Applying feng shui to your own home or work place need not be overly complicated nor expensive.
      • Even my views on physical punishment in the classroom are different and more complicated than your correspondent implies.
      • It is simple to follow and will not confuse the reader with complicated jargon or difficult concepts, yet its potential benefits are large.
      • The series was intended to look at this complicated issue from different angles.
      • That situation reflects the necessity of different approaches to capture different aspects of a very complicated historical and contemporary reality.
      • Some news items were too complicated to explain to the public.
      • A survey of small businesses has found that more than a quarter have admitted they made the wrong IT purchases because they were confused by overly complicated technical jargon.
      • Many of course arrive here as refugees, which adds a further complex element to an already complicated situation.
      • Life for him has become absolutely simple as it has become incredibly complicated for his spouse and family.
      • As I said, why do companies have to make things so complicated?
      • I have to admit, you made things a bit more complicated for us.
      • A single-pointed approach is important when situations get complicated, confused or out of hand.
      • In fact, it is just too confusing and unnecessarily complicated.
      • He went on, however, to draw attention to what he described as one critical distinction, and in doing so may have created further confusion in this already complicated and difficult area.
      • It gets more complicated when countries with different cultures and values are included in the discussion.
      • Avoid those who try to conceal what they are doing, tell you it's too complicated or use confusing and unnecessary jargon.
      • You see this very, very deep ambivalence on both sides that I think makes the political situation very complicated.
      • There is a sense that in some intangible fashion the country is simply too big, too confusing, too complicated to be governed effectively.
      • As you get to the more complicated and perplexing aspects of physical science you reach a quagmire in having a unified answer.
      Synonyms
      complex, intricate, involved, convoluted, tangled, elaborate, impenetrable, knotty, tricky, thorny, serpentine, labyrinthine, tortuous, cumbersome, byzantine, daedalian, gordian
  • 2Medicine
    Involving complications.

    complicated appendicitis
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Outpatient treatment is not recommended in women with severe sepsis or complicated pyelonephritis, or in men.
    • Serotypes of isolates from 56 newborns after a preterm or complicated birth whose diagnosis was not specified, were not included in the study.
    • Knowledge of Doppler flow velocimetry of the foetal MCA may assist in perinatal diagnosis and management of complicated pregnancies.
    • In conclusion, it remains beyond doubt that treatment of empyema and complicated parapneumonic effusions is multidisciplinary.
    • Meanwhile, women with complicated pregnancies requiring the services of an obstetrician have to travel three hours round trip to find a doctor.
 
 
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