剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - labyrinth collapse

labyrinth
/'læb.ə.rɪnθ/ literary
noun [C]
* a confusing set of connecting passages or paths in which it is easy to get lost
迷宫；曲径

1. Finally, through a labyrinth of corridors she found his office.
穿行过迷宫般的走廊后，她最终找到了他的办公室。

* something which is very confusing
令人迷惑的东西，迷宫一样的东西

1. He was no stranger to the labyrinth of love.
他经常为情所困。

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - labyrinth collapse

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1.N-COUNT 可数名词迷宫；迷阵 If you describe a place as a labyrinth, you mean that it is made up of a complicated series of paths or passages, through which it is difficult to find your way.

【搭配模式】：oft N of n

【STYLE标签】：LITERARY 文

  • ...the labyrinth of corridors.

    迷宫般的走廊

2.N-COUNT 可数名词错综复杂的事物；千头万绪的局面；盘根错节的情况 If you describe a situation, process, or area of knowledge as a labyrinth, you mean that it is very complicated.

【搭配模式】：usu N of n

【语域标签】：FORMAL 正式

  • ...a labyrinth of conflicting political and sociological interpretations.

    错综复杂、相互矛盾的政治学与社会学诠释

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - labyrinth collapse

labyrinth
laby·rinth / 5lAbErinW / noun   (formal)a complicated series of paths, which it is difficult to find your way through
   迷宫；曲径:
   We lost our way in the labyrinth of streets.
   我们在迷宫式的街道上迷了路。
  (figurative) a labyrinth of rules and regulations
   错综复杂的规章制度
⇨ compare maze
• laby·rin·thine / 7lAbE5rinWain; NAmE also -Win / adj. (formal):
   labyrinthine corridors
   迷宫式的走廊
   labyrinthine legislation
   错综复杂的立法程序

新牛津英语同义词词典 - labyrinth collapse

labyrinth

noun
1 a labyrinth of little streets
MAZE , warren, network, complex, web, coil, entanglement.

2 the labyrinth of conflicting laws and regulations
TANGLE , web, morass, jungle, snarl, twist, turn, complexity, confusion, complication, entanglement, convolution, intricacy; jumble, mishmash, hotchpotch, hodgepodge; archaic perplexity.

词源记忆 - labyrinth collapse

labyrinth 迷宫
来自希腊语labyrinthos, 迷宫，原为希腊神话中克立特岛上一座用来关牛妖的宫殿，可能来自labrys, 双刃斧，皇权的象征，用来指皇室宫殿。同时由该神话衍生clue.