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esoteric adj.秘传的；神秘的；难懂的 (1) 我问了，但是他说他不能告诉我那药方，因为那是秘传的。(2) 有一些护甲在制造的过程中用秘传的方法和神秘的技艺将魔法编织在护甲之上。(3) 没有任何奥妙的公式或神秘的心境可毫不费力地提出好的设计方案。(4) 最终一致性不是那些被过度分布的系统中存在的晦涩难懂的属性。 In the olden days, achieving esoteric knowledge meant getting initiated into the mystical arts, learning secrets unknown to regular folks. Now when a subject is called esoteric it's usually something not so mystical but still hard to penetrate: financial accounting might seem esoteric for people who get easily stumped filling out their tax forms. Americans might find the sport of cricket to be esoteric, but the rules of baseball can be just as impenetrable to outsiders. The infield fly rule? Totally esoteric.

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英 [ˌesə'terɪk] 美 [ˌesə'terɪk] (1) I asked, but he said he couldn't tell me the recipe because it was esoteric.(2) Certain kinds of armor are made according to arcane and esoteric methods that involve weaving magic into the substance of the armor.(3) There are no esoteric formulas or secret states of mind that produce good designs effortlessly.(4) Eventual consistency is not some esoteric property of extreme distributed systems. Pssst... do you know the secret handshake? If you haven't been brought into the inner circle of those with special knowledge, esoteric things will remain a mystery to you. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]深奥的；难懂的；常人难以理解的 If you describe something as esoteric, you mean it is known, understood, or appreciated by only a small number of people.   [FORMAL 正式]...esoteric knowledge.深奥的知识...a spoiled aristocrat with pretentious airs and esoteric tastes.自命不凡、品位刁钻且被惯坏了的贵族成员

英语单词	esoteric
英美音标	英 [ˌesə'terɪk] 美 [ˌesə'terɪk]
中文释义	adj.秘传的；神秘的；难懂的
英语例句	(1) I asked, but he said he couldn't tell me the recipe because it was esoteric. (2) Certain kinds of armor are made according to arcane and esoteric methods that involve weaving magic into the substance of the armor. (3) There are no esoteric formulas or secret states of mind that produce good designs effortlessly. (4) Eventual consistency is not some esoteric property of extreme distributed systems.
中文例句	(1) 我问了，但是他说他不能告诉我那药方，因为那是秘传的。 (2) 有一些护甲在制造的过程中用秘传的方法和神秘的技艺将魔法编织在护甲之上。 (3) 没有任何奥妙的公式或神秘的心境可毫不费力地提出好的设计方案。 (4) 最终一致性不是那些被过度分布的系统中存在的晦涩难懂的属性。
vocabulary简明	Pssst... do you know the secret handshake? If you haven't been brought into the inner circle of those with special knowledge, esoteric things will remain a mystery to you.
vocabulary扩展	In the olden days, achieving esoteric knowledge meant getting initiated into the mystical arts, learning secrets unknown to regular folks. Now when a subject is called esoteric it's usually something not so mystical but still hard to penetrate: financial accounting might seem esoteric for people who get easily stumped filling out their tax forms. Americans might find the sport of cricket to be esoteric, but the rules of baseball can be just as impenetrable to outsiders. The infield fly rule? Totally esoteric.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]深奥的；难懂的；常人难以理解的 If you describe something as esoteric, you mean it is known, understood, or appreciated by only a small number of people. [FORMAL 正式] ...esoteric knowledge. 深奥的知识 ...a spoiled aristocrat with pretentious airs and esoteric tastes. 自命不凡、品位刁钻且被惯坏了的贵族成员

Esoteric Secret Mystical 英 ˌesə'Terɪk] 美 ˌesə'Terɪk Adj.秘传的；神秘的；难懂的 I