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gnarled

/nahrld/US // nɑrld //UK // (nɑːld) //

参差不齐的,虬髯客,参天的树枝,参天的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : full of or covered with gnarls; bent; twisted.
    • : having a rugged, weather-beaten appearance: a gnarled old sea captain.
    • : crabby; cantankerous.

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Examples

  • Due to the harsh environment, both trails are lined with twisted and gnarled trees.

  • Proceeding through the door you find yourself in the Grove of Spirits, a place of gnarled, leafless trees and muted daylight.

  • A massive tree encountered on a trip to Peru inspired another piece, a 3-D-printed sculpture of the organism’s gnarled root structure.

  • I was taken into one by Maurice, a gnarled old Vietnam vet in a wooly hat.

  • Hard-caught game gets something feral and gnarled—Côte-Rôtie or a leathery Hermitage.

  • What was distinct as the visitors turned away from the inscribed edges of the pools was the lone gnarled tree.

  • The knots were so plentiful that the thread stood up like a gnarled flagpole.

  • The young who are not gnarled and knocked around by the old fights are tired of the overtones of special pleading.

  • The gnarled hands shut up into clenched fists, and the feeble voice trailed off in an agonized moan.

  • The Dark One threw down the mountains, gnarled the forests, and bent the rivers which his brother had made.

  • You can really trim an old apple tree into a thing of gnarled power and quaint charm by a little care.

  • They sat on the turf, with a gnarled old apple tree rustling above them.

  • She saw before her two bright-coloured hammocks fastened to the gnarled trunks of some orange-trees.