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involution

/ɪnvəˈluːʃən/

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noun

内卷，螺旋化，复杂化。

Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.

Examples :

"The intricate involution of family responsibilities made planning her vacation incredibly difficult. "

家庭责任的复杂化让她很难计划假期。

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noun

绕弯弯，盘根错节的结构

A complicated grammatical construction.

Examples :

"The teacher pointed out the paragraph's involution, explaining that its tangled sentence structure made it difficult to understand. "

老师指出了这段文字结构的绕弯弯之处，解释说它盘根错节的句子结构让理解变得困难。

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noun

对合，自逆。

An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.

Examples :

"Flipping a light switch is an example of an involution: Doing it twice returns the light to its original state. "

拨动电灯开关就是一个对合的例子：拨动两次就能让灯回到初始状态。

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noun

子宫复旧, 内卷.

The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.

Examples :

"After childbirth, the uterus undergoes involution, returning to its pre-pregnancy size. "

生产过后，子宫会发生复旧，逐渐恢复到怀孕前的大小。

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noun

衰老退化, 内卷化

The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.

Examples :

"Sentence: "As he entered his eighties, the man noticed the involution of his eyesight and mobility." "

随着他进入八十多岁，这位老人注意到自己的视力和行动能力开始衰老退化。

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noun

乘方，幂运算。

A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.

Examples :

"Calculating the area of a square involves an involution, specifically squaring the length of one side. "

计算正方形的面积涉及乘方运算，具体来说就是对边长进行平方。