intractability

基本解释

Yet a multiplicity of countries, though it makes river management complicated, does not necessarily add to the intractability of a dispute.
然而，虽然一国多河使河流管理更加复杂，但它不一定使争端更加棘手。
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The unit personalities and intractability add a whole new depth to a game that may not be recognized on the surface, but for one reason or another keeps us coming back for more.
游戏单位的个性化设计和独特性给游戏增添了全新的深度，它也许不会被大家一眼所认出，但是却能够使我们回味无穷，让我们欲罢不能。
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This maddening intractability has been more than compensated, however, with continuing moments of grace and occasional genius, and above all a life-affirming refusal to go gently.
但与持续的荣耀时刻和不世出的天才们，尤其是拒绝走向平庸的人生态度相比，这些令人恼火的偏离常规又算得了什么呢？

Given the messy intractability of state failure, who or what has a chance of solving it?
ECONOMIST: Failed states
Paul Theroux, a hard-to-please American travel writer, experienced French intractability at first hand on the Orient Express.
ECONOMIST: For some, France is still on the other side of the earth
The young director, Joe Carnahan, wants to impress upon us the intractability of our life on this earth.
NEWYORKER: Narc