challenging
adjective
uk/ˈtʃæl.ɪn.dʒɪŋ/us/ˈtʃæl.ɪn.dʒɪŋ/B1
difficult, in a way thattestsyourabilityordetermination:
有难度的；具有挑战性的；考验人的This has been a challengingtimefor us all.这对我们大家都是一个具有挑战性的时刻。
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thought-provoking
not easy to deal with or understand
- difficultIt's very difficult to find a job in this city.
- hardThe exam was really hard.
- complicatedThe instructions were so complicated I just couldn't follow them.
- complexDesigning a house is a complex process.
- trickyIt's quite tricky getting the puzzle pieces to fit together.
- Heresignedfrom thecompanyinorderto take a more challengingjob.
- She doesn'tfindthegeneralknowledgecrosswordchallenging enough.
- You did that so well that I'm going to give you something abitmore challenging to do thistime.
- It's when youfindyourself in a really challengingsituationthat youfindout what you arecapableof.
- Some of thesceneswereextremelychallenging for aninexperiencedactor.
Difficult to understand
- abstruse
- ambiguity
- ambiguous
- ambiguously
- antinomy
- fathomless
- garble
- get it into your thick headidiom
- impalpable
- impenetrable
- impenetrably
- indiscernible
- lost
- non-intuitive
- obscurely
- obscurity
- oracular
- prolix
- wasted onsomeoneidiom
- word salad
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Complicated and difficult to do