elaborate

The adjective is pronounced /ɪ'læbərət/. The verb is pronounced /ɪ'læbəreɪt/. 形容词读作/ɪ'læbərət/。动词读作/ɪ'læbəreɪt/。

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

elaborately
It was clearly an elaborately planned operation.
那显然是一次精心策划的行动。

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。

elaborately
...elaborately costumed dolls.
装扮精美的玩具娃娃

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

elaboration
...the elaboration of specific policies and mechanisms.
具体政策和机制的详细规划

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. 加工：.精细加工(elaborate) 通过仔细思考新信息来学习,并把新信息与旧信息建立起联系. .精细复述(elaborative rehearsal) 是一种学习策略,人们利用该策略对新信息进行仔细思考,并在新信息内部或在新信息与旧信息之间建立起联系.

2. elaborate的解释

2. 复杂的：理念具有多样性,可以是基本的、简单的(rudimentary),也可以是冗长而复杂的(elaborate可以是理论驱动性的(theory-driven)或常识性的(common-sensical),也可以是阐述性的(descriptive)或因果关系性的(causal).