thorny
英 [ˈθɔːni]
美 [ˈθɔːrni]
adj. 棘手的; 麻烦的; 引起争议的; 有刺的; 多刺的
Collins.1 / BNC.18411 / COCA.13200
牛津词典
adj.
- 棘手的；麻烦的；引起争议的
causing difficulty or disagreement- a thorny question/issue/problem
棘手的问题
- a thorny question/issue/problem
- 有刺的；多刺的
having thorns- a thorny bush
有刺的灌木
- a thorny bush
柯林斯词典
- ADJ (植物、树木)带刺的，多刺的
Athornyplant or tree is covered with thorns.- ...thorny hawthorn trees.
长满刺的山楂树
- ...thorny hawthorn trees.
- ADJ-GRADED (问题)棘手的，复杂难解的，令人头疼的
If you describe a problem asthorny, you mean that it is very complicated and difficult to solve, and that people are often unwilling to discuss it.- ...the thorny issue of immigration policy...
移民政策这个棘手问题 - It is essential that we tackle this thorny problem.
我们很有必要处理这个棘手问题。
- ...the thorny issue of immigration policy...
英英释义
adj
- having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
- a horse with a short bristly mane
- bristly shrubs
- burred fruits
- setaceous whiskers
- bristling with perplexities
- the thorny question of states' rights
双语例句
- Recruiting from outside the family, however, remain a thorny issue.
然而，在家族之外进行招聘仍然是个棘手的问题。 - Tax arbitrage has always been a thorny issue.
税收套利一直是个棘手的问题。 - Another thorny issue involves controlling inflation in the face of emerging market forces.
另一棘手的问题涉及在市场力量形成的同时控制通货膨胀。 - The Volvo sale also raises some thorny issues for Ford.
出售沃尔沃也给福特带来了一些棘手的问题。 - For a start, there are thorny issues arising from the Smith recommendations.
首先，史密斯的建议将引发一些棘手的问题。 - How exactly these private dancers know which hotel rooms to visit, though, has become a thorny question.
可是，这些私人舞女究竟是怎样知道该去哪个旅馆房间的现在却成了一个棘手的问题。 - It is essential that we tackle this thorny problem.
我们很有必要处理这个棘手问题。 - In a specification of hundreds of pages, consistency is a thorny problem.
在一部有着数百页的规格说明里，一致性是一个棘手的问题。 - In Japan, though, this is proving a particularly thorny problem.
然而在日本，事实证明这是一个尤其棘手的问题。 - The thorny problem of what happens when the boss is absent.
老板不在时情况会怎样这一棘手问题。