Tortuous

(adj.) not straightforward; 'his tortuous reasoning' .

(adj.) marked by repeated turns and bends; 'a tortuous road up the mountain'; 'winding roads are full of surprises'; 'had to steer the car down a twisty track' .

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• A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Through this valley the river meanders in the most tortuous way, varying in direction to all points of the compass. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Bayous Baxter and Macon are narrow and tortuous, and the banks are covered with dense forests overhanging the channel. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Just beyond the gorge the valley is narrow, and the creek so tortuous that it has to be crossed a great many times in the course of the first mile. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• We discover a man of great imaginative power but tortuous in the Arab fashion, and with most of the virtues and defects of the Bedouin. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And in no other regard do we find the rich tortuous humanity of the American story so finely displayed as in regard to slavery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A small stove, used occasionally in the winter, was connected to the chimney by a tortuous pipe. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The distance would probably be greater by the tortuous bayous through which this new route would carry us. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The way led through a maze of tortuous corridors, unlighted save for the wavering light they carried. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It is narrow, very tortuous, and fringed with a very heavy growth of timber, but it is deep. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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