gnarled
gnarled 英 [nɑ:ld] 美 [nɑrld]
adj. [木] 多节的；粗糙的；多瘤的 v. 把…扭曲；长木瘤（gnarl的过去分词）
- You’ve probably heard the word "gnarly" used to describe something really awesome. But gnarled means rugged, roughened and knotty, like the hands of an old wood carver, as well as the wood he carves.
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- adj. [木] 多节的；粗糙的；多瘤的
- v. 把…扭曲；长木瘤（gnarl的过去分词）
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1. The hunter pads into a back room, pops open a freezer and reveals the goods: four gnarled, frozen paws.
卖家蹑手蹑脚地进入一间里屋，打开一个冰箱，拿出了我们的货：四只粗糙的冰冻熊掌。
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2. In the flooded forest, vines and roots created a web of gnarled wood, covered with every type of biting insect.
在洪水四溢的森林里，藤条和树根形成了一个多节的木头网，其上有各种咬人的昆虫。
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3. "We forget all our troubles when we practice," he said as he contorted himself at the Temple of Heaven, where seniors exercise beneath the gnarled trees at dawn.
拂晓时分，高明元与很多老年人一样常在天坛树林里锻炼身体，他一边锻炼一边说：“锻炼的时候，我们可以忘记所有烦恼。”
- gnarled (adj.) c. 1600, probably a variant of knurled, from Middle English knar "knob, knot in wood, protruding mass on a tree" (late 14c.), earlier "a crag, rugged rock or stone" (early 13c.), from a general group of Germanic words that includes English knob, knock, knuckle, knoll, knurl. Gnarl (v.) "make knotty," gnarl (n.) "a knotty growth on wood," and gnarly (adj.) all seem to owe their existence in modern English to Shakespeare's use of gnarled in 1603:
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