elusive是什么意思

双语用例

• Philosophical arguments address one of the most fundamental yet elusive questions facing behavioral scientists, namely, what constitutes a disorder?

• A precise mechanism and pathophysiology, which could account for this pure deficit, is however, elusive.

• Despite the many positive responses to priming in the various crops reported above, the precise mechanisms remain elusive.

• As a result, these overlapping groups and contrasting methods of definition have caused the nature and identity of the group to remain elusive.

• It is an effective tool for quick title searches, for the output of a publisher, for book series, for pamphlets, for an elusive author.

• Evidence as to the underlying mechanisms responsible remains elusive.

• Good operational measures of, and data on, asset specificity are notoriously elusive.

• An inner logic, elusive and yet compelling, lends an unexpected substance to this work of modest dimensions.