单词:elusive
s. skillful at eluding capture
s. difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
考试类型:[托福/GRE]
elusive的用法和样例:
例句
- Number is a crucial but elusive concept in English teaching and learning.数是英语教学中的一个关键而又难以捉摸的概念。
- The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in the Himalayas is hardly more elusive.常使喜马拉雅山的攀登者浮想联翩的雪人也不比此更难以捉摸。
- Men like to pursue an elusive woman, like a cake of wet soap in a bathtub- even men who hate bath.男人们喜欢追逐那些象浴缸里的湿肥皂般难以捉摸的女人,即使是讨厌洗澡的男人也无不如此。
- He spent a year prospecting for the elusive metal.他花了一年的功夫去勘探那种很难到手的金属。
- Interpol have searched all the corners of the earth for the elusive hijackers.国际刑警组织已在世界各地搜查在逃的飞机劫持者。
经典引文
The grot, elusive of the noontide ray.
出自:R. Savage
- intangible难以明了的
- evasive逃避的
- baffling令人困惑的
- impalpable感触不到的
- imponderable无法估量的事物...
- slippery滑的
- elusory难捉摸的
- eely似鳗的
- undefinable不能下定义的...
- puzzling令人迷惑的
- fleeting短暂的
- aerial空中的
- subtle微妙的
- indefinable难以说明的
- vague不明确的
- indescribable不能用语言表达的...
- abstract抽象的
- mysterious神秘的
- obscure难解的
- tenuous脆弱的
- to对于
- catch赶上
- hard硬的
- problematic问题的
- problematical成问题的
- knotty有结的
- tough强硬的
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