词汇释义

abstruse  TEM8  GRE

UK  /æbˈstruːs/ US  /æbˈstruːs/

adj, You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply.尤指故作深奥的，难解的

外刊例句

1. Repo rates, by contrast, are seen as sufficiently abstruse for the central bank to decide on its own when it wants to change them.(TheEconomist)

2. On November 8th India took this abstruse thought experiment into the real world, scrapping two banknotes which made up 86% of all rupees in circulation.(TheEconomist)

3. He was an innovative and often abstruse theoretician, but he applied his postulates to real-world cases of conflict, cooperation and compromise in planning curriculums, publishing guidebooks and making videos.(New York Times)

4. “We recognize that we’re covering very difficult, abstruse stuff,” Mr. Frank told the Times.(Washington Post)

5. No, I don’t mean economics, or the abstruse arguments about whether we should use monetary or fiscal policy.(Forbes)

6. Some view buy-backs as a form of financial sorcery, on a par with all those abstruse credit derivatives that helped cause the financial crisis.(TheEconomist)

7. Even less do they attempt to read the widely-cited article co-authored by Michael Jensen in 1976, which clothed the same preconceived conclusion in nonsensical psychology and abstruse mathematics.(Forbes)

8. Probably my favorite thing about the paper is the way it jumps back and forth between practical tips for mile-chasers and abstruse academic jargon.(The Verge)

9. Having previously written about such abstruse and highly theoretical concepts as the multiverse, Tegmark is not a man daunted by the prospect of informed but imaginative speculation.(The Guardian)

10. Plagued by opaque and ever-shifting regulations and a culturally abstruse way of doing business, American companies fell to a series of local giants.(New York Times)

11. Bryson marvelled at its “unhurried pace, comforting devotion to abstruse statistics and thoughtful historical rumination, exhilarating micro-moments of real action stretched across many hours and with a lushness of terminology and restful elegance”.(The Guardian)

12. It was the sort of abstruse display that reinforced the value of observers who possess expertise in local politics, history and culture.(New York Times)

词汇搭配

abstruse thought, argument, way, concept, statistics, display

词汇来源

1590s, "remote from comprehension," from French abstrus (16c.) or directly from Latin abstrusus "hidden, concealed, secret," past participle of abstrudere "conceal, hide," literally "to thrust away," from assimilated form of ab "off, away from" (see ab-) + trudere "to thrust, push," from PIE root *treud- "to press, push, squeeze" (see threat). Related: Abstrusely; abstruseness.

近义词

complex, complicated, difficult, tough, hard, deep, esoteric, profound, recondite

反义词

easy, facile, simple, shallow, superficial, straightforward, intelligible, understandable, apparent, clear, distinct, evident, lucid, manifest, obvious, plain, transparent

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