Tangle
['tæŋg(ə)l] or ['tæŋɡl]
解释:
(noun.) something jumbled or confused; 'a tangle of government regulations'.
(noun.) a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven; 'they carved their way through the tangle of vines'.
唐尼手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
(n.) To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.
(v. i.) To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
(n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
(v.) A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
(v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
艾布拉姆编辑
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Interweave (confusedly), intertwine, complicate, perplex, snarl, entangle.
n. Complication, intricacy, perplexity, snarl.
手打:纳塔利
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Intertwist, interlock, snarl, complicate, insnare, mat
ANT:Unravel, disentangle, untwine
阿伊达整理
解释:
n. a knot of things united confusedly: an edible seaweed: a perplexity complication: (Scot.) any long hanging thing even a lank person: an apparatus for dredging.—v.t. to unite together confusedly: to interweave: to ensnare entangle.—n. Tang′lefoot (U.S.) whisky &c.—adj. Tang′lesome (prov.) quarrelsome.—adv. Tang′lingly.—adj. Tang′ly in a tangle: united confusedly: covered with tangle or seaweed.
埃琳娜整理
例句:
- Their eyes glittered through their tangle of hair, their naked nostrils were full of shadow. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Here we cannot trace out the tangle of alliances and betrayals that ended in the ascendancy of this Octavian, the adopted heir of Julius C?sar. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The tangle of motives and facts and ideas was incredible. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Mlud, says Mr. Tangle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I hardly know which is myself and which the butcher, we are always in such a tangle and tussle, knocking about upon the trodden grass. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Her calm pale face, with dim, wide-opened blue eyes, looked upward from amid a great tangle of golden hair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Mr. Tangle, says the Lord High Chancellor, latterly something restless under the eloquence of that learned gentleman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Think of mass and a sermon away down in those tangled caverns under ground! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- There was a window looking on to the tangled front garden. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I feel all tangled and messed up, and I CAN'T get straight anyhow. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The tangled mass was thrown into the background. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Instead of standing up straight and separated to be cut the wheat would more often come in great bunches, twisting about the sickles and getting tangled in the machinery. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- But the gropings are there,--vastly confused in the tangled strains of the nation's interests. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But I shall come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I should like to see the solution of so tangled a business. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- But in such striking-out he tangles his arms, pulls strong on the slip-knot, and it runs home. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I have not done that because this rational procedure inverts the natural order of things and develops all kinds of theoretical tangles and pseudo-problems. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The roof and chimney of Venn's caravan showed behind the tracery and tangles of the brake. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
阿斯特编辑