elaborate第三人称单数

1. 精巧的，精美的，精致的
2. 复杂的，细致复杂的
3. 详尽的
4. 辛勤的
5. 精细的，精心的，认真的
6. 精益求精的
7. 精心雕琢的，精心装饰的，精心制成的，精心制定的
8. 煞费苦心的

1. 详尽阐述，详细说明，细说下去
2. 详尽计划，详细制订
3. 变得复杂
4. 增加细节
5. 认真做，用心作，精心制作，尽心竭力地做，苦心经营
6. 推敲（文章）
7. 引申
8. 费（些）口舌
9. 发挥
10. 从简单成分合成（复杂有机化合物），把转变成（能吸收、排泄等的化合物）
11. 加工

1. marked by complexity and richness of detail;

   "an elaborate lace pattern"
   

2. developed or executed with care and in minute detail;

   "a detailed plan"
   "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"
   "the carefully elaborated theme"
   

1. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing;

   "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
   

2. produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product;

   "The bee elaborates honey"
   

3. make more complex, intricate, or richer;

   "refine a design or pattern"
   

4. work out in detail;

   "elaborate a plan"
   

1.复杂的
You useelaborate to describe something that is very complex because it has a lot of different parts.

e.g. ...anelaborate research project.
复杂的研究计划
e.g. ...anelaborate ceremony that lasts for eight days.
持续8天的繁琐典礼

2.（计划、系统、程序等）繁复的，详尽的，过于复杂的
Elaborate plans, systems, and procedures are complicated because they have been planned in very great detail, sometimes too much detail.

e.g. ...elaborate efforts at the highest level to conceal the problem.
最高层为了隐瞒问题而挖空心思
e.g. ...anelaborate management training scheme for graduates.
针对毕业生的详尽的管理培训计划

3.（衣服、布料等）精致的，精巧的，制作精美的
Elaborate clothing or material is made with a lot of detailed artistic designs.

e.g. He is known for hiselaborate costumes.
他以着装精致而闻名。

4.精心制作;详细计划;进一步完善
If youelaborate a plan or theory, you develop it by making it more complicated and more effective.

e.g. His task was toelaborate policies which would make a market economy compatible with a clean environment.
他的任务是制定详细政策，使得市场经济和清洁环境能够共存。
e.g. ...the plan elaborated by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
由联合国安全理事会5个常任理事国详细制定的方案

5.详细说明；详尽阐述
If youelaborate on something that has been said, you say more about it, or give more details.

e.g. A spokesman declined toelaborate on a statement released late yesterday...
发言人拒绝对昨天晚些时候发表的声明详加说明。
e.g. Would you care toelaborate?
你愿意详细说明一下吗？

1. You understand the situation; I needn't elaborate any further.
   你对情况是了解的,我不必再进一步详谈了。

1. The inventor spent months in elaborating his plans for a new engine.
   这位发明家花费了几个月的时间精心绘制了一种新发动机的平面图。
2. Please elaborate your points.
   请就你的观点详加说明。
3. The bees elaborate honey.
   蜜蜂辛勤酿蜜。
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4. Some of these points will have to be further elaborated as we go along.
   这些要点中,有些我们在往下讨论时还得作进一步的详细阐述。

1. It's an elaborate design.
   这是一种精心的设计。
2. The elaborate lighting system took months to install.
   安装这套精美的照明系统花了好几个月的时间。
3. He made an elaborate hairstyle.
   他做了一个复杂的发型。

1. The problem is too elaborate.
   问题太复杂。

1. The matter is so elaborate that we can't solve it.
   这事情太复杂,我们解决不了。

• He has no elegances either lucky or elaborate.

  出自：S. Johnson

• Honey..is elaborated by the Bee.

  出自：R. Boyle

• He was going to continue, to elaborate and embellish this idea.

  出自：W. Styron

• I began jabbering, elaborating excuses.

  出自：A. Lurie

• He went out..to make sketches from nature, and then elaborated them in his studio.

  出自：E. H. Gombrich

• ☆ 16世纪90年代进入英语，直接源自古典拉丁语的elaboratus，意为体力生产；最初源自古典拉丁语的elaborat，意为非常详细的。