Unravel
[ʌn'rævl]
解释:
(verb.) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of; 'unravel the thread'.
校对:莫蒂默--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.
(v. t.) Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.
(v. t.) To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.
(v. i.) To become unraveled, in any sense.
安吉洛手打
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Disentangle, extricate, ravel, untwist.[2]. Unfold, decipher, interpret, understand, resolve, solve, explain, read, clear up, make out.
弗朗辛校对
解释:
v.t. to take out of a ravelled state: to unfold or explain: to separate.—v.i. to be disentangled.—adj Unrav′elable.—ns. Unrav′eller; Unrav′elment.
赫尔曼手打
例句:
- That was all he knew--all he could hope to unravel of the story. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- If I give you any clue to what I am, or to what I have been, you will unravel it, I know. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Ask a woman to solve the mystery; for it is beyond the power of any man to unravel. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Be it this history's part, however, to leave them to unravel themselves. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Time alone will unravel all this perplexity, so to time will I truSt After all, I am young and strong, so can defend myself if necessary. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Mrs. Trenor paused to enjoy the spectacle of Miss Bart's efforts to unravel her tangled correspondence. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Allan looks from Jo to the woman, and from the woman to Jo, waiting for one of them to unravel the riddle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- If half the stories I have heard are true, when it comes to unravelling a mystery, there isn't the equal in England of Sergeant Cuff! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- There is little use in unravelling that now. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- No one would deny the right of forming a provisional assumption to the intelligence officer interpreting a cipher, or to the detective unravelling the mystery of a crime. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Bulstrode had not yet unravelled in his thought the confused promptings of the last four-and-twenty hours. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
校对:斯宾塞