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gnarly

/nahr-lee/US // ˈnɑr li //UK // (ˈnɑːlɪ) //

粗糙的,邋遢的,顽固的,邋遢

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    gnarl·i·er, gnarl·i·est.

    • : twisted with or as if with gnarls or knots; gnarled: long and gnarly fingers.
    • : Slang. distasteful or distressing; offensive; gross: a comic noted for his gnarly humor.
    • : Slang. excellent; wonderful: The live album has some gnarly guitar riffs and sweet bass lines.
    • : Slang. difficult or dangerous: the gnarly surf.

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Examples

  • Expect anything from firm, packed roads to gnarly switchbacks on narrow trails.

  • Backpackers can take a short but gnarly hike down steep, unmaintained routes to camp by the Gunnison River in almost total solitude.

  • Pedaling around with one wheel in the air won’t help you win a race or bomb a gnarly descent.

  • Find out why Anthony Bourdain’s boeuf bourguignon is one of our most popular recipes everThere is remarkable nuance and variety beneath those gnarly exteriors — a realm of flavor that this one-pot chicken dinner unearths beautifully.

  • The gnarly seed that sprouts into a soft green thing and the sapling that becomes a behemoth, understandably, catch our eye.

  • Well the idea of “release” and infanticide and suggestions of eliminating the imperfect is pretty gnarly, if you think about it.

  • A helicopter hovered overhead, catching every second of the gnarly ride.

  • Work, especially, sees you getting kinks out of gnarly systems and operations.

  • Charred palm trees loomed over the road like gnarly fingers up through the ground.

  • Her neck, far too liberally exhibited, resembled nothing so much as the stem of an ill-conditioned, gnarly young olive tree.

  • They were twisted and gnarly, and with scarcely the semblance of the full meaty calf such as graces your leg and mine.

  • He pulled the face off one of them, literally pulled it off with those gnarly fingers of his and those tremendous muscles.

  • And as he peers he crooks one monstrous leg and with his gnarly toes scratches himself on the stomach.

  • Some gnarly apple which I pick up in the road reminds me by its fragrance of all the wealth of Pomona.