to make sth unnecessarily complicated 故弄玄虚
make thing more complicated 使情况更复杂
make simple thing complicated 故意施弄狡猾的手段
They have to make complicated trade-offs when buying a carton of milk: If I buy milk, I can't afford orange juice.
甚至在买一盒牛奶时他们都必须进行复杂的权衡:如果我买了牛奶,我就买不起果汁了。
'A good scientist will make complicated things seem simple, because they're all actually arrived at from simple principles.
一个好科学家会让复杂的东西看上去很简单,因为它们实际上都是由简单的原则构成的。
Whole industries have cropped up to make complicated products, to convince us we need these complicated products and to then help us use these complicated products.
整个产业都突然开始生产复杂的产品,并让我们相信确实需要复杂的产品并帮助我们去运用这些复杂的产品。
"They are so complicated that if you tried to estimate how many ways you can make a snowflake, you get a huge number not just billions or trillions, but bigger than the number of atoms in the universe.
VOA: standard.2009.12.19
And Chomsky's argument is complicated and interesting, but the main sort of argument he had to make is goes like this.
乔姆斯基的论据很复杂,也很有意思,但他所提出的主要论据是这样的。
So, the issues are complicated as to what sort of generalizations we're--are reasonable to make and what aren't.
所以什么情况可以用刻板印象,什么不可以,问题就变得复杂了。
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