English主要词典
tortuous
Universal Words
adjective [usuallybeforenoun] (written)
1 (usually disapproving) not simple and direct; long, complicated and difficult to understand:
tortuous language / laws * the long, tortuous process of negotiating peace
2 (of a road, path, etc.) full of bends:
a tortuous mountain track
tortuously adverb:
a tortuously slow system