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esoteric

/es-uh-ter-ik/US // ˌɛs əˈtɛr ɪk //UK // (ˌɛsəʊˈtɛrɪk) //

深奥的,深奥,深入浅出,奥秘的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite: poetry full of esoteric allusions.
    • : belonging to the select few.
    • : private; secret; confidential.
    • : intended to be revealed only to the initiates of a group: the esoteric doctrines of Pythagoras.

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Examples

  • It may sound like an esoteric problem, but a rapidly-spinning litter beneath a helicopter with a 74-year-old evacuee in it made news in 2019 in a video that will make you gasp.

  • Zokinvy builds on decades of research on many aspects of the lamin A protein, including the “seemingly esoteric chemical modification” that forms progerin, he says.

  • He then decided he’d had enough of eking out small advances in esoteric areas of physics, and he got ready to begin a postdoc at Princeton University in the more wide-open field of neuroscience.

  • Which includes what seem to me like fairly esoteric ways of getting STDs such as, for example, mosquito bites.

  • At the same time, the book delves deep into gritty physics details, thoroughly explaining important concepts like the cosmic microwave background — the oldest light in the universe — and tackling esoteric topics in theoretical physics.

  • Ted is a quirky guy that loves esoteric topics like Teddy Roosevelt trivia and the history of belts.

  • There is a pill in Tibetan Buddhism that contains a lot of esoteric ingredients, some of which are bodily substances.

  • He noted that some esoteric historians call them “Palestinians.”

  • Suddenly you can hold forth about leading and kerning and other esoteric aspects of typesetting.

  • In the old days it was not uncommon for the admissions officer to pose some esoteric—make that wacko—question.

  • His esoteric project was the original project of Christopher Columbus, extended and modified.

  • I think that sort of thing appeals especially to me because my own design isn't in the least esoteric.

  • Petuléngro, farrier, the esoteric Romany name of the Smith family.

  • Yet it is known that we have several branches of these same Esoteric Masonic Lodges carrying on their deadly work in our midst.

  • This was the origin of the rites more public, yet certainly esoteric, that he at last found himself able to establish.