thorniest

英 [ˈθɔːnɪɪst]

美 [ˈθɔrniəst]

adj.  棘手的; 麻烦的; 引起争议的; 有刺的; 多刺的
thorny的最高级

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (植物、树木)带刺的，多刺的
  Athornyplant or tree is covered with thorns.
  1. ...thorny hawthorn trees.
     长满刺的山楂树
• ADJ-GRADED (问题)棘手的，复杂难解的，令人头疼的
  If you describe a problem asthorny, you mean that it is very complicated and difficult to solve, and that people are often unwilling to discuss it.
  1. ...the thorny issue of immigration policy...
     移民政策这个棘手问题
  2. It is essential that we tackle this thorny problem.
     我们很有必要处理这个棘手问题。

双语例句

• It may sound like the setup to a joke, but it is actually one of the thorniest questions facing science today. Over the past decade, researchers on animal cognition have come up with some ingenious solutions to the testing problem.
  这听起来可能像是故意开玩笑，其实它是科学界当下面临的最棘手的难题之一。过去十年间，研究动物认知能力的科研人员想出了一些有独创性的解决方法。
• For the moment, limiting the footage to judges would avoid the thorniest problems.
  而且，就目前情况而言，限制对法官的拍摄有助于避免那些最棘手的问题。
• With the increasing intensification of liberalization and globalization of world trade, technical barriers to trade have been progressively replacing the tariff and traditional non-tariff barriers, forming one of the thorniest matters in modern international trade.
  随着世界贸易自由化、全球化程度的不断加深，贸易技术壁垒正逐步取代关税和传统的非关税壁垒，成为新的贸易障碍，构成当今国际贸易中最棘手的问题之一。
• The politically thorniest issue will be the fate of cross-border banking.
  政治方面，最棘手的将是跨境银行的命运。
• Testing performance is one of the thorniest areas of unit testing.
  测试性能是单元测试最为痛苦的方面之一。
• An agreement on borders could lead to direct talks on the thorniest issues of the conflict, including the status of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees.
  就边界问题达成协议有助于促成双方就最棘手的问题进行直接对话，包括耶路撒冷的地位和巴勒斯坦难民问题。
• Mr Lee is also battling to combat two of the country's thorniest problems: an expensive education system based on rote-learning and the need to diversify out of dirty heavy industry.
  李明博还在和韩国最棘手的两个问题作斗争：建立在死记硬背基础上、成本高昂的教育体制，以及进行产业多样化以减少高污染重工业的需要。
• The city, which is holy to both Jews and Muslims, is one of the thorniest issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  耶路撒冷对于犹太人和穆斯林而言都是圣城，这个城市是以色列和巴勒斯坦冲突中最棘手的问题。
• Nowadays the problem of countryside, agriculture and peasants, is the thorniest in China. It is not only puzzling reform and open policy, but also hindering further progress of social economy and civilization.
  三农问题是当今中国最棘手的社会问题，它困扰着改革开放进一步发展，阻碍着社会经济与文明的进步。
• The high tax policy matched with the high welfare is the thorniest one among them.
  与高福利相匹配的高税收政策就是其中最棘手的一个。