labyrinth
迷宫,迷路,迷途,迷宫式
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- : an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit.
- : a maze of paths bordered by high hedges, as in a park or garden, for the amusement of those who search for a way out.
- : a complicated or tortuous arrangement, as of streets or buildings.
- : any confusingly intricate state of things or events; a bewildering complex: His papers were lost in an hellish bureaucratic labyrinth.After the death of her daughter, she wandered in a labyrinth of sorrow for what seemed like a decade.
- : Classical Mythology. a vast maze built in Crete by Daedalus, at the command of King Minos, to house the Minotaur.
- : Anatomy. the internal ear, consisting of a bony portion and a membranous portion .the aggregate of air chambers in the ethmoid bone, between the eye and the upper part of the nose.
- : a mazelike pattern inlaid in the pavement of a church.
- : Also called acoustic labyrinth, acoustical labyrinth .Audio. a loudspeaker enclosure with air chambers at the rear for absorbing sound waves radiating in one direction so as to prevent their interference with waves radiated in another direction.
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Examples
Otherwise, you just pull on your warmest socks and snow boots, toss your snowshoes in the back of your car, and choose your own wintertime labyrinth to explore.
It seems that resolving advertising’s identity crisis is like negotiating a maze and advertisers have no idea what waits for them at the end of the labyrinth.
Thousands of crocodiles patrol an adjoining labyrinth of manmade cooling canals.
Nearly 300 of the bald, bucktoothed, nearly blind rodents can scoot along a colony’s labyrinth of tunnels.
It is a contentious, mathematical labyrinth of public policy.
As Fox explains in Making Time, a labyrinth of aging pipelines and forgotten wells crisscrosses the city.
It was a ponderous labyrinth of bolts, locks, and steel doors, making it an almost impregnable fortress.
As Margalit Fox says at the outset of The Riddle of the Labyrinth, the story of Linear B is well known.
This is wishful thinking: a plunge into the labyrinth with no thread to lead them back out.
As it has come down to us “on the borders of pottery and textiles, the meander resembles a maze or labyrinth.”
Here opens up, very evidently, a perfect labyrinth of complexity.
But it was the labyrinth for which the earlier economist held, so he thought, the thread.
What thread shall guide us in this labyrinth of conjectures and contradictions from the very first verse to the very last?
You will not wonder that I lose time and catch at every hope, rather than involve myself in that labyrinth of Chicane and expense.
It was approached through a labyrinth of streets that grew denser and darker as one neared the precincts of the club.