0 rough and twisted, especially because of old age or no protection from bad weather -- （尤指因为年老或坏天气的侵害而）粗糙的，扭曲的
In this type, the trees are small, more or less crowded, and present a stunted and gnarled appearance.
Here is the woman-as-nature trope gone wrong: the trees are gnarled, the background is a cold, barren wasteland, a metaphor for the subject's own sterility.
Do they have anything meaty or even interesting to offer to the intellectual historian who delights in charting rich mental worlds and untangling gnarled intellectual genealogies?
The twin focus of the picture lies with the gnarled, but precise hand threading the needle, and her etched brow and laughter lines framed by an ornate mutchkin cap.
There are one or two gnarled specimens left.
The painting shows a simple house, barely outlined, framed by two gnarled pine trees.
He is a short, elderly man, with balding, white hair, a gnarled nose, and he is always seen with a big pipe.
On the opposite side of the twisted and gnarled tree stands a naked nymph, listening attentively.
