Modern finance is becoming increasingly complicated and sophisticated.
現代の金融は一段と複雑かつ高度になってきている。
When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.
This might lead us to believe that a simple culture would make use of a simple language, that a complex culture would make use of a complex language, and so on.
Lately the discount airline ticket system has gotten so complicated that there's a lot about it I can't figure out.
最近は、航空券の格安チケットも仕組みが複雑すぎて、わかりにくいことが多い。
A computer is a complex machine.
コンピューターは複雑な機械だ。
He is good at solving complicated mathematical problems.
彼は複雑な数学の問題を解くことが得意だ。
Tom bought a new multifunction printer.
トムは新しい複合機を買った。
His lie complicated matters.
彼の嘘が事態を複雑にした。
And though a web looks complicated, it takes a spider little time to make one and catch insects.
巣は複雑そうに見えるが、クモが巣を作って昆虫を捕るのに時間はほとんどかからない。
I can see some intricate patterns in the picture.
その絵には複雑な模様が見える。
Frustrated with the European languages, which he considered "too boring", Christopher Columbus invented "Columbian", a language so complicated that only he could speak it.
The language of that tribe is as complex as any other human language.
その種族の言語は他のどんな人間の言語にも劣らず複雑だ。
My brother could not solve the complicated problem.
兄はその複雑な問題を解くことができなかった。
In Esperanto, nouns end with "o". Plurals are formed with the addition of "j".
エスペラント語では、名詞は「o」で終わります。複数形は「j」をつけることで表されます。
The machine was too complicated for us to find out the cause of the trouble.
その機械は複雑すぎて、我々は故障の原因を見つけられなかった。
There are so-called primitive cultures in the jungles of the Amazon and on the island of New Guinea, and there are so-called advanced cultures in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but the languages of these cultures are all equally advanced and complex.
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
It cannot plausibly be argued that behaviour of such complexity derives entirely from instinct.
そのような複雑な行動が本能のみに由来するという主張はとうてい成り立たない。
This story is too complex for children.
この話は子供には複雑すぎる。
I found the problem uncomplicated.
その問題は複雑でないと解った。
This child solved the complicated mathematics problem easily.
この子は複雑な数学の問題を簡単に解いた。
Edison invented a device for duplication.
エジソンは複写の装置を発明した。
The problem is complicated by his personality.
この問題は彼の性格と複雑にからんでいる。
Their communication may be much more complex than we thought.
彼らのコミュニケーションは我々が考えてきたものよりはるかに複雑かもしれません。
In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
