word of the day:准1,2021

Anfractuous

弯曲杂乱

Adjective an-FRAK-chuh-wus

Definition

: windings and intricate turnings full of windings:tortuous

曲折和错综复杂的曲折:曲折

Examples

Then,as The road resumed its anfractuous course,clinging to The extreme margin of this tumbled and chaotic coast,The funbegan.it wasRavines skirtedRivers ingeniously bridgedbends tight as the loops in a thumb print;Naked rockfacesCliff-edge encounters,hundreds of feet above the ocean,each of which induced a sickly pang of vertigo。-乔纳森拉班

然后这条路蜿蜒曲折地颠簸着,贴在混乱的海岸边上,快乐开始了。

不计其数的如过山车般的爬升和俯冲下行。 纵横的沟壑; 流水巧妙地衔接; 如指尖上的环纹紧密地弯曲着; 裸露的岩壁; 与海面数百英尺的悬崖边缘相遇,一次次的引起恶心、眩晕。”

"Readers who require a single conflict or steady linear progression may find Lurkers' anfractuous structure unwieldy, but there's something cinematic about how Lurkers works. The novel recalls the winding yet interconnected narratives of Robert Altman films like Nashville (1975) and Short Cuts (1993)." — John A. Riley, PopMatters, 1 Mar. 2021

需要单一冲击感或稳健直线发展的读者(ps:喜欢有冲击力的剧情以及徐徐渐进的叙事方式的读者,大概这种感觉,上面的翻译总觉得不是很顺,这里大概描述一下~)可能会发现 Lurkers 错综的笨拙的(书写)结构,但 Lurkers 的写作方式有一些电影感。 这部小说让人回想起罗伯特·奥特曼 (Robert Altman) 电影如《纳什维尔》(1975) 和《捷径》(1993) 中曲折而又相互关联的叙事。”

Did You Know?

Plots and paths can be anfractuous. They twist and turn but do not break. Never mind that the English word comes ultimately from the Latin verb frangere, meaning "to break." (Frangere is also the source of fracture, fraction, fragment, and frail.) But one of the steps between frangere and anfractuous is Latin anfractus, meaning "coil, bend." The prefix an- here means "around." At first, anfractuous was all about ears and the auditory canal's anfractuosity, that is, its being curved rather than straight. Anfractuous has been around for centuries, without a break, giving it plenty of time to wind its way into other applications; e.g., there can be an anfractuous thought process or an anfractuous shoreline

Plots and paths 可以是 anfractuous。 它们扭曲并转动,但不会断裂。 没关系,英语单词最终来自拉丁语动词 frangere,意思是“to break「打破」”。 ( Frangere 也是 fracture、fraction、fragment 和fail 的来源。)但是 frangere 和 anfractuous 之间的某一环节(联系着)拉丁语 anfractus ,意思是 “coil「卷曲」、bend「弯曲」”。 前缀 an- 在这里的意思是“around「周围」”。 最初,anfractuous 是关于耳朵和弯曲的耳道,它是弯曲的而不是直的。 Anfractuous 已经存在了几个世纪,从未间断,这给了它足够的时间用于其他用途中; 例如,there can be an anfractuous thought process or an anfractuous shoreline「可以是一个错综复杂的思维过程,也可以是一个错综复杂的海岸线」

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