核心畫面

Picture many parts folded in among each other: pull one and three others move. Whether that arrangement is a problem or a marvel depends on what you are looking at — a family situation you cannot untangle, or a watch movement built from a hundred tiny pieces.

可以想成:很多零件互相纏疊在一起——你動其中一個,另外三個跟著動。這樣的結構是麻煩還是精妙,要看你在看什麼:可能是一更多收起可以想成:很多零件互相纏疊在一起——你動其中一個,另外三個跟著動。這樣的結構是麻煩還是精妙,要看你在看什麼:可能是一團理不清的家務事,也可能是一只由上百個小零件組成的錶。

From the picture

由許多零件緊密組成

同樣的多層結構,但這次的重點在組成而不在感受:東西是由很多小零件緊密接在一起做出來的,本身沒有好壞的評價。

intricate; elaborate · adjective · B1

Made of many small parts that are closely joined or connected together.

複雜精密的;由許多部分組成的

Also in this word

complicated; complex · adjective · B1

Hard to understand or deal with because it has many parts or details.

複雜的;麻煩的

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

complicatedadj/ˈkɒm.plɪ.keɪ.tɪd/

  • 1

    Difficult or convoluted.

    • It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
    • But there always is in my mind something at once ludicrous and mournful in a crowd congregated for the purpose of amusement. What discontent, what vanity, move the complicated wheels of the social machine!
  • 2

    biologynatural-sciencesFolded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。