陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

abstruse/ arduous/ baffle/ cryptic/ enormity/ facile/ feasible/ hassle/ inscrutable/ intricate/ skein/ strenuous/ toil/ travail/ unfathomable/ viable

1. 「深奧難懂的」可用abstruse或cryptic，若強調「無法深究的」、「不可解的」，用unfathomable：

•This is a very abstruse riddle for a child.

•We found it difficult to decipher the cryptic message.

•The murder case remains an unfathomable mystery.

2. 事情等「極複雜的」可用intricate，指人或其行為「謎樣的」、「不好懂的」，用inscrutable：

•Don't make your directions intricate; make them easy to understand.

•The Chinese people are sometimes said to be inscrutable.

•My girlfriend responded to my proposal with an inscrutable smile.

3. 「費力的」可用arduous或strenuous：

•There are few roads to success that are not arduous.

•Mining is an arduous job.

•After a day's strenuous work, you should take a rest.

4. 生活的「辛勞」、「困苦」，可用toil或travail。另外，在非正式的語境中，人身體或心裡的「掙扎」、「麻煩事」、「挫折」等，可用hassle：

•Charles has achieved his comfortable life only after years of hard toil.

•The pioneer's life was full of hardship and travail.

•It's a real hassle to get this child to eat.

•One hassle after another enabled him to know life better.

5. 指困難的「艱巨」、「重大」，用enormity；讓人「受挫」、把人「難倒」， 用baffle：

•The enormity of the task confounded him.

•He was encumbered with the enormity of feeding a family of 10 members.

•The examination question baffled me completely and I couldn't answer it.

•The riddle baffled everybody.

•She was completely baffled by his strange behavior.

6. 指「一團」糾結在一起的思緒等，用skein：

•She wanted to be alone in order to unravel a complicated skein of thought.

7. 「輕易的」叫facile，「可行的」用feasible或viable：

•The facile success has made the boy become very arrogant.

•It's not feasible to dismiss him.

•The project he advanced seemed feasible.

•This plan looks all right in principle, but in practice it wouldn't be viable.