真的在地上彎
這一族是那條線的字面版本：路、小徑、河、山谷，都是眼睛看得到的彎。
adjective · C1
A tortuous road, path or river bends one way and then the other, again and again, so that moving along it is slow and hard work.
蜿蜒曲折的
核心畫面
One way to hold tortuous is a line drawn by someone who keeps changing their mind: left, then right, then left again, never long enough in one direction for you to see where it is going. Nothing about that line is steep and nothing about it is far. The cost is all in the turning. You cannot see ahead, you cannot keep your speed, and the distance on the map turns out to mean nothing. Once you have the line, you can lay it over a mountain road or over a page of writing, and the complaint is the same either way: this could have gone straight, and it did not.
tortuous 可以想成一條猶豫不決的人畫出來的線：左轉、再右轉、又左轉，沒有一段直到讓你看出它要去哪裡。這條線不…更多收起
tortuous 可以想成一條猶豫不決的人畫出來的線：左轉、再右轉、又左轉，沒有一段直到讓你看出它要去哪裡。這條線不陡，也不長。代價全部在那些轉彎上。你看不到前面，速度提不起來，地圖上的距離變得沒有意義。只要抓住這條線，它可以蓋在一條山路上，也可以蓋在一整頁文字上。抱怨的內容是一樣的：這件事本來可以直直過去，結果沒有。From the word’s history
The word comes through Old French from Latin tortuosus, built on tortus, a twisting or winding. The modern uses have not moved away from that: whether it is a road or an argument, tortuous still names turning.
這個字經過古法文，來自拉丁文 tortuōsus，而它的底是 tortus——扭、繞。今天的用法完全沒有離開那個字根：不管講的是一條路還是一段論證，tortuous 說的都還是「一直轉」。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1046897871:8298): From Middle English tortuous, from Anglo-Norman and Old French tortuos, from Latin tortuosus, from tortus 'a twisting, winding'.
Two branches
話和流程在彎
同一條線，這次不是用腳走，是用腦袋跟。彎的代價從「開不快」變成「跟不上」。
adjective · C1
Long, complicated and full of turns, so that it is hard to follow — used about explanations, arguments, stories, talks and official processes.
冗長曲折的