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Made of many small parts or details that all fit or work together. A watch, a piece of lace, a computer chip, a city map, or a long plan can be intricate. The word is not only “hard.” Hard or can mean messy. Intricate usually says the pieces are carefully joined, even if they take time to see. You can use it for beautiful things and for ideas: an intricate pattern, an intricate argument. There is an old verb to intricate, meaning to tangle something, but almost nobody uses that now. The describing word is the one you will meet.
錯綜複雜的、精細複雜的
組成From Middle English intricate (“entangled”), from Latin intricātus, from intricō (“to entangle”); English -ate makes the describing word.
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- intricatelythe “how” form of this word
原始詞典資料4 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。
intricateadj詞源 1/ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kət/
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Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
- The architecture of this clock is very intricate.
- As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
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archaicDifficult to disentangle, puzzle apart, or resolve; enigmatic, obscure.
- The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; Nor ſees with how much Art the Windings run, Nor where the regular Confuſion ends.
- His style of writing […] was […]fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding […]with the utmost clearness.
intricateverb詞源 2/ˈɪn.tɹɪ.keɪt/
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To become enmeshed or entangled.
- […] washes off easily, without sticking or intricating into the wound.
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To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.
- But the British and French won't hear of that; they want to get their troops extricated and our ground troops intricated.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。