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Перевод: knotty

[прилагательное]
сучковатый; узловатый; сложный; затруднительный; запутанный

Тезаурус:

1. He was only small but he was wiry, with hard, knotty muscles.
2. The greatest respect was paid by all the family to his opinions on all subjects from farming to knotty points of theology.
3. Selecting from publishers' catalogues throws up at least two knotty practical difficulties.
4. This sort of research, which critics describe as "playing God", gets even more morally knotty when it comes to gene therapy, with its potential for monitoring and altering human genes to check for and eliminate hereditary diseases.
5. KNOTTY PROBLEM
6. John Wesley and his close associate John Berridge (1716-;93), the Rector of Everton, had both been addicted to this practice; both had used it to obtain an answer at a particular time to the knotty question whether to get married.
7. Mother Bombie tapped the side of her skull with a knotty finger, black as a root.
8. He heard her whisking and wailing on her way, and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone, and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth, as though on a pivot or balance, disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water, and showing a dark, dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse.
9. A capacity for burying problems made royal commissions and the like instantly attractive to politicians besieged by one knotty issue or another.
10. His owner must not shampoo him while he's knotty as it will tighten the knots and make them harder to remove.
11. At the Annual General Meeting of the Lord Lieutenants' Association - surely Britain's most exclusive trade union - there is much discussion of such knotty questions as whether the pushy chairman of the local district council has, as he insists he has, the right to be presented to the Queen before the laid-back leader of the county council.
12. Stable isotope analysis (see glossary) can be used both to provenance the marble used and to solve some particularly knotty problems caused by over-enthusiastic restoration, where fragmentary pieces were re-assembled, frequently incorporating new pieces of marble, to make the statue appear whole.
13. Children's grasp of these knotty subjects is monitored and tested through the four Key Stages (aged 5-7, 8-11, 12-14 and 15-16) of their educational career.