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arcane

/ahr-keyn/US // ɑrˈkeɪn //UK // (ɑːˈkeɪn) //

玄学,玄妙,玄妙的,弧形

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric: She knew a lot about Sanskrit grammar and other arcane matters.

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Examples

  • The bills are long and complex, with arcane differences around industry policy, licensing and other details.

  • The recent fight between Senate Democrats and Republicans over the rules that would govern the chamber this session was complicated and arcane.

  • If that math seems wacky, it is, but leverage, arcane financial instruments and access to those by only a few is what makes it possible.

  • While many of the details are arcane, the infrastructure Paxos is building is potentially transformative for fields beyond cryptocurrency.

  • He also contributed clues, drawing from his knowledge in such arcane fields as oil drilling and bullfighting.

  • All those bloodthirsty tweets and arcane exhortations and now we find out you were an advertising executive—an ad exec!

  • Food stamps are the biggest and most expensive component of the farm bill—an arcane piece of legislation that sets farm policy.

  • The arcane pair of paragraphs are packed with the sort of yawn-provoking polysyllables that only a lawyer could love.

  • He is admirably intent on rescuing literature from the arcane rituals of US academia and restoring it to a wider audience.

  • While they are arcane even in Georgia, they apparently are not without some small degree of influence.

  • Arcane took a bucket of water back from camp and after drinking it and resting awhile the ox was driven down to the spring.

  • Now preparations began, Mr. Arcane killed the ox which had so nearly failed, and all the men went to drying and preparing meat.

  • Mr. Arcane had about $30 and others threw in small amounts from forty cents upward.

  • We met Bennett and Arcane's teamsters, and as we expected they were already out of grub and no way to get anymore.

  • Arcane was quite of the same opinion, the saving of a week of hard and tiresome travel being in each case the deciding reason.