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labyrinth
[ lab-uh-rinth ]
noun
- an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit.
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- a maze of paths bordered by high hedges, as in a park or garden, for the amusement of those who search for a way out.
- a complicated or tortuous arrangement, as of streets or buildings.
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- any confusingly intricate state of things or events; a bewildering complex:
His papers were lost in an hellish bureaucratic labyrinth.
After the death of her daughter, she wandered in a labyrinth of sorrow for what seemed like a decade.
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- Labyrinth. Classical Mythology. a vast maze built in Crete by Daedalus, at the command of King Minos, to house the Minotaur.
- Anatomy.
- the internal ear, consisting of a bony portion bony labyrinth and a membranous portion membranous labyrinth.
- the aggregate of air chambers in the ethmoid bone, between the eye and the upper part of the nose.
- a mazelike pattern inlaid in the pavement of a church.
- Also called acoustic labyrinth;. Audio. a loudspeaker enclosure with air chambers at the rear for absorbing sound waves radiating in one direction so as to prevent their interference with waves radiated in another direction.
Labyrinth
1/ 藞濒忙产蓹谤瑟苍胃 /
noun
- Greek myth a huge maze constructed for King Minos in Crete by Daedalus to contain the Minotaur
labyrinth
2/ 藞濒忙产蓹谤瑟苍胃 /
noun
- a mazelike network of tunnels, chambers, or paths, either natural or man-made Compare maze
- any complex or confusing system of streets, passages, etc
- a complex or intricate situation
- any system of interconnecting cavities, esp those comprising the internal ear
- another name for internal ear
- electronics an enclosure behind a high-performance loudspeaker, consisting of a series of air chambers designed to absorb unwanted sound waves
labyrinth
- The system of interconnecting canals and spaces that make up the inner ear of many vertebrates. The labyrinth has both a bony component, made up of the cochlea, the semicircular canals, and the vestibule, and a membranous one.
Labyrinth
- In classical mythology , a vast maze on the island of Crete . The great inventor Daedalus designed it, and the king of Crete kept the Minotaur in it. Very few people ever escaped from the Labyrinth. One was Theseus , the killer of the Minotaur.
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of labyrinth1
Example Sentences
The base is a labyrinth of tunnels dug deep into white rocky hills.
Trump鈥檚 immigration policies have already crystalized into the grotesque: the "Remain in Mexico" program has become a Kafkaesque labyrinth, where migrants are swept into endless spirals of arrests and detentions.
The two boys, aged 2 and 4, romped through the labyrinth of La Soledad, under lines of drying laundry, past deliverymen pushing stacked handcarts and carpenters hammering away at tottering structures.
The first of two TV dramas on the Lockerbie disaster to be broadcast this year will, for many people, be their first glimpse into this labyrinth of a case.
Then, in the middle of it all, lulled by the flutter of Chris Speed鈥檚 clarinet, Holter seems to step outside of the labyrinth for a breath of fresh air.
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