murky. multidisciplinary, ample evidence

To Tap China, Hollywood Gives Censors a Preview

By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES

Studios wanting access to China’s fast-growing film market are discovering that navigating the murky, often shifting terrain of censorship is part of the process.

murky

音節

murk • y

発音

mə'ːrki

レベル

社会人必須

[形]（-i・er, -i・est）

1 非常に暗い, まっ暗な；薄暗い.

2 霧でかすんだ, どんよりした.

3 あいまいな, 理解しにくい.

4 秘密めいた

a man with a murky past
暗い過去を持った男.

5 〈水が〉濁った, きたない.
Today, scholars announced the results of an urgent government-sponsored research program that -- using ''the superiority of socialism to develop a multidisciplinary approach'' -- has filled in key gaps in the ancient record of China's first kings and dynasties. The project, which mobilized more than 200 scholars for five years, has been hailed for shedding light on the murky origins of Chinese civilization. But it has also raised questions about the role of nationalism in scholarship.


Ample evidence does exist of early cultures in the Yellow River Valley, where legend holds that the Chinese language and imperial system took form under a mythical Yellow Emperor 5,000 years ago. But no firmly documented chronology of rulers, reigns and conquests -- of the sort that exists for ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia -- actually goes back beyond 841 B.C.

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ample
(ăm'pəl)
adj., -pler, -plest.

1. Of large or great size, amount, extent, or capacity: an ample living room. See synonyms at spacious.
2. 1. Large in degree, kind, or quantity: an ample reward.
   2. More than enough: ample evidence.
3. Fully sufficient to meet a need or purpose: had ample food for the party. See synonyms at plentiful.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin amplus.]

multidisciplinary

(mŭl'tē-dĭs'ə-plə-nĕr'ē, -tī-)
adj.
Of, relating to, or making use of several disciplines at once: a multidisciplinary approach to teaching.