Abstruse

(adj.) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; 'the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them'; 'a deep metaphysical theory'; 'some recondite problem in historiography' .

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• This proposition contains two parts, which we shall endeavour to prove as distinctly and clearly, as such abstruse subjects will permit. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• An abstruse subject, I should conceive,' said Mr. Pickwick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The Golden Dustman seeming to be engaged in some abstruse calculation, Mr Wegg assisted him with the following additional items. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The effort has been made to avoid technique and abstruse phrases, but some degree of explanation has been absolutely necessary in regard to each group of inventions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But this is principally the case with those ideas which are abstruse and compounded. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• For the academic intelligence abstract and abstruse mathematics are tonic and an end in themselves. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His interest lay in abstruse mathematical problems. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But I had no inclination for the law, even in this less abstruse study of it, which my family approved. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• I study and get up abstruse No Thoroughfares in the course of the day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I saw his astronomical instruments put to strange uses, his globes defaced, his papers covered with abstruse calculations destroyed. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Secretaire, you see, and abstruse set of solid mahogany pigeon-holes, one for every letter of the alphabet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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