汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 盘根错节
盘根错节 (盤根錯節)
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
盘 Coiled / 错 staggered / 节 Branches / The roots and branches of the trees circled and staggered / Metaphorically, things are difficult and complicated
树根盘曲,枝节交错。比喻繁难复杂不易解决的事情。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

第二名和第三名分别是“盘根错节”和“煮豆燃萁”。

The second and third are "deep-rooted" and "Zhudou burning dichotoma.

此外,盘根错节的数据线、各类充电器和数字生活中的其他随身设备俯拾皆是。

Moreover, the spaghetti of wires, the chargers and the other paraphernalia of digital life are hardly unobtrusive.

实际上,技术进步与全球化究竟孰优孰劣难有定论,因为二者本来就是盘根错节

In practice, it is hard to parcel out the blame between technology and globalisation, because the two are so intertwined.

眼看问题经纬万端,进退两难、入困境,死路一条,盘根错节的命定可能性,但找不到明显的出路。

I see conundrums, dilemmas, quandaries, impasses gnarly thickets of fateful possibility with no obvious way out.

当然,在黄果树没有大自然作用下摇摇欲坠的寺庙,但是却不乏被大树的盘根错节箍定的岩石。

Of course, here at Huangguoshu there are no crumbly temples that nature has decided to reclaim, but there are plenty of rocks upon which the trees have staked out their claim.

你们工作到三更半夜,盘根错节的论文一再地让你们在找出解决方法还是一头钻进研究之间弄得进退两难。

You are working well past midnight, the thesis turned into a maze and you constantly are Tom between wanting to find the way out or in.

这是两棵迎客松,它们盘根错节,摆动枝叶向你们招手致意,欢迎大家的到来,愿你们像松柏常青、永葆青春年华。

Two greeting pines with twining roots and complex knags are waving to welcome your coming. May you live a long life and be young forever, like the pines.

这次电荒的爆发再次将理顺煤电矛盾、完善机制提上日程,其背后盘根错节的复杂关系亟待理清。

The outbreak of power failures again will smooth the contradiction, perfect the mechanism of coal on the agenda, the complex relationship so intertwined behind it to be clear.

闪电泛光灯照亮了盘根错节的古树和一具庞大的铁钟。和尚们打着伞,穿着僧衣和拖鞋四处走动。

Lightning floodlights gnarled trees and a giant iron bell. Monks with umbrellas flit about in robes and slippers.