highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;
"the Byzantine tax structure" "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship" "convoluted legal language" "convoluted reasoning" "the plot was too involved" "a knotty problem" "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering" "Oh, what a tangled web we weave" "tortuous legal procedures" "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
For us, justice is only an aspiration because we don't have the money to get through the convoluted legal system that seems to have been built to help lawyers make money. 对我们来说，公正仅仅是一种渴望，因为我们没有钱去完成令人费解的法律过程，这个法律体系看起来似乎是为了帮助律师赚钱而建立起来的。
