You use elaborate to describe something that is very complex because it has a lot of different parts.
complicated
an elaborate research project.
一项复杂的研究项目。
Elaborate plans, systems, and procedures are complicated because they have been planned in very great detail, sometimes too much detail.
elaborate efforts at the highest level to conceal the problem.
最高层为了掩饰这个问题而费尽心思。
Elaborate clothing or material is made with a lot of detailed artistic designs.
He is known for his elaborate costumes.
他以着装精美著称。
elaborates , elaborating , elaborated
If you elaborate a plan or theory, you develop it by making it more complicated and more effective.
His task was to elaborate policies that would make a market economy compatible with a clean environment.
他的任务是制定详细政策,使得市场经济与洁净的环境共存。
If you elaborate on something that has been said, you say more about it, or give more details.
A spokesman declined to elaborate on a statement released late yesterday.
发言人拒绝对昨天晚些时候发表的一份声明作出更多说明。