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单词 thorny
释义
thorny
adjective
uk
/ˈθɔː.ni/us
/ˈθɔːr.ni/

thornyadjective(PROBLEM/SUBJECT)

[before noun]
A thornyproblemorsubjectisdifficulttodealwith:
棘手的，麻烦的
the thornyissueoftaxation棘手的税收问题
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Complicated and difficult to do
  • advanced
  • ambitious
  • ambitiously
  • another
  • arduous
  • fierce
  • formidable
  • formidably
  • get blood out of/from a stoneidiom
  • grail
  • obstinately
  • onerous
  • overdemanding
  • painstaking
  • picnic
  • tricky
  • tuff
  • ultra-sensitive
  • unresolved
  • unsolved
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thornyadjective(PLANT)

havingthorns:
多刺的；带刺的
a thornyrosebush带刺的玫瑰丛
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Parts of plants
  • bilobed
  • blade
  • bough
  • bulb
  • calyx
  • caning
  • cascara sagrada
  • endodermis
  • needle
  • outgrowth
  • rhizome
  • simple leaf
  • spine
  • stoma
  • tea leaf
  • trunk
  • variegation
  • vascular
  • veined
  • vesicle
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(Definition ofthornyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

thorny| American Dictionary

thorny
adjective[-er/-est only]
us
/ˈθɔr·ni/
having a lot ofthorns:
Roses are thornyshrubs.
A thornyproblemis one that isfullofdifficulties:
The thornyissueofillegalimmigrationremainsunresolved.
(Definition ofthornyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofthorny

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In fact, it was later to become a much thornier issue. 16.
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The issue of locating community grammars constitutes a much thornier issue.
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The issue here, of course, is the question of how you define a species, perhaps the thorniest of all problems in the history of biology.
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The second one is perhaps the thorniest of all and, once he departs from the material culture territory, the author finds himself on somewhat shakier ground.
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Within the area of research into language contact, one of the thorniest problems facing scholars has been the question of the epistemological borders between different phenomena.
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Clearly, if the assumption were correct, turning off a ventilator raisesthornyproblems for the criminal lawyer.
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Among the difficulties facing the endeavours represented by the above papers, perhaps the mostthornyis that of the role of criticism.
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The lucid exposition of these long-standing andthornydebates should prove a sure way to undergraduates' hearts, whatever their creed.
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There is an important section on thethornyissue of assessment and how it could become more person-focused.
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The third text, c, offers morethornyproblems.
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The reader will learn all he could want to know about all previous and current estimates on thisthornysubject.
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The main study is a serviceable little project, which looks at the way different people use somethornyconcepts.
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None the less, intercultural communication often runs into the notoriouslythornyproblem of ethical relativism.
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One had many small branches and was namedthornydiffuse.
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The samethornyproblems that plague fairly pricing deposit insurance plague fairly pricing the performance guarantee.
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