1.倔强的,难处理的
2.难治疗的;难对付的
3.难操作的,难加工的
1.very difficult or impossible to deal with
2.refusing to be persuaded, or refusing to deal in a friendly way with someone
1.In software, an intractable problem can usually be replaced by an equivalent one that's easy to solve.
在软件领域，一个难以对付的问题通常可以被一个等价的较易解决的问题代替。
2.So it looks like a little bit of an intractable, or at least a little bit of a complicated, function.
所以它看起来有点棘手，至少是有点复杂的函数。
3.Perhaps, relief: that the dark decades of soaring population growth, inching economic growth and intractable poverty, are finally over.
或许是一种宽慰感：在过去黑暗的数十年间印度人口增长迅猛，经济增长缓慢，贫穷根深蒂固，现在这一切终于一去不复返了。
4.Marine cooling water system was attacked by both corrosion and biofouling, and biofouling seems to be even more intractable.
海水冷却水系统都面临腐蚀和生物污损双重挑战，而生物污损相比更难处理。
5.The intractable problems at the heart of their conflict can be summed up in four words: borders, settlers, refugees, Jerusalem.
这个一直以来原封不动摆在那里的问题可以用四个词来描述：边界，定居点，难民，耶路撒冷。
6.Surgical intervention is only indicated in a small group of patients with intractable constipation failed to conservative treatment.
只有少数经保守治疗无效的顽固性便秘患者需要手术治疗。
7.At the time, there was a deep-rooted sense of despair and hopelessness over the seemingly intractable Great Inflation.
当时，对于看似难以抑制的“大通胀”（GreatInflation），决策者深感绝望。
8.The matter should be presented in the light of what human societies have always done in the face of intractable starvation.
当人类面临棘手的饥饿问题时，按照人类社会一贯的表现，这种情况应当会出现。
9.It was not less difficult than the above mentioned to organize the simplest form of society out of such savage and intractable materials.
要把这样一些蒙昧初开、野犷难驯的材料组织起来，形成最简单的一种社会，其困难的程度也不在上述困难之下。
10.Before the meeting, Mr Obama referred tactfully to the intractable differences between them on trade and human rights.
会晤还未开始，奥巴马先生技巧地提到了双方关于贸易和人权方面令人棘手的差异。