maze

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

maze [maze mazes mazed mazing] BrE [meɪz] NAmE [meɪz] noun
1. a system of paths separated by walls or ↑hedges built in a park or garden, that is designed so that it is difficult to find your way through
•We got lost in the maze.
• (figurative)The building is a maze of corridors.
•The old city is a delightful maze for the modern tourist.
compare ↑labyrinth
2. usually singular a large number of complicated rules or details that are difficult to understand
•Many applicants for the grant are put off by the maze of regulations and conditions.
•a maze of regulations
3. (NAmE)a printed ↑puzzle in which you have to draw a line that shows a way through a complicated pattern of lines

Word Origin:
Middle English (denoting delirium or delusion): probably from the base of ↑amaze, of which the verb is a shortening.

Example Bank:
•I followed him through a maze of narrow alleys.
•I was lost in a maze of passages.
•They did not have the expertise to navigate the bureaucratic maze required for certification.
•the famous hedge maze at Hampton Court

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  tangle, snarl, labyrinth