tangle

英 ['tæŋɡl] 美 ['tæŋɡl]

• n. 缠结；混乱；纠纷
• vt. 使缠结；使混乱；使陷入
• vi. 纠缠；乱作一团；<口>吵架；争论

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. (使)混乱

   make confused, disordered; twist and twine into a confused mass

2. vi. 打架,吵嘴

   become involved in a fight; quarrel with sb

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 混乱，纷乱
2. 乱糟糟的一团，乱糟糟的一堆
3. <口>纠纷，口角，打架，吵闹
4. 缠结，纠缠，纠结
5. 拳赛
6. 海底动植物采集器
7. 海带（类）
8. 困境，复杂，难题

v. 动词

1. 使纠缠，使缠结
2. 使困惑，使纠结；使混乱
3. 使卷入，使陷入
4. <口>吵架，打架，纠纷，吵闹，争论
5. 缠结，纠缠，缠结在一起变成混乱状态
6. 弄乱，弄混
7. 纷乱，变得混乱
8. 笼络，诱陷
9. 受牵累，卷入争论
10. 竞争
11. 使陷入圈套，使落入陷阱
12. 被纠缠

英英释义

Noun:

1. a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven;

   "they carved their way through the tangle of vines"
   

2. something jumbled or confused;

   "a tangle of government regulations"
   

Verb:

1. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action;

   "They were swept up by the events"
   "don't drag me into this business"
   

2. tangle or complicate;

   "a ravelled story"
   

3. disarrange or rumple; dishevel;

   "The strong wind tousled my hair"
   

4. twist together or entwine into a confusing mass;

   "The child entangled the cord"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The wool got in a fearful tangle.
   毛线乱成了一团。
2. His financial affairs are in such a tangle.
   他的钱财是糊涂帐。
3. We employed a lawyer to straighten our legal tangle.
   我们雇了一位律师把法律纠纷理出头绪。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. The little girl tangled the yarn her mother was knitting.
   小女孩把她妈妈在编结的毛线弄得纠结在一起了。
2. The wind tangled her hair.
   风吹乱了她的头发。
3. They were tangled in the labour-management controversy.
   他们被卷入了劳资纠纷。

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

1. He was really a tough guy to tangle with.
   他真是一个难缠的人。
2. The cables on the floor were in a tangle.
   地上的电缆乱作一团。
3. We tangled heatedly over the justice of the war.
   我们就这场战争的正义性激烈地争了起来。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. Long hair tangles easily.
   长头发容易打结。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. The wind tangled her hair.
   风吹乱了她的头发。
2. The news tangled his thoughts terribly.
   这消息使他的思想乱极了。
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3. Your hair's so tangled that I can't comb it.
   你的头发太乱了,我梳不动。

经典引文

• This string is all in a tangle.

  出自：Oxford English Dictionary

• He freed three fenceposts from the tangle of broken fencing.

  出自： J. M. Coetzee

• The knobbly branches growing in a tangle.

  出自： U. Holden

• Tangl'd in the fold Of dire necessity.

  出自： Milton

• Hotels tangled in bankruptcy proceedings.

  出自：Time

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

tangle up (v.+adv.)

使完全缠结,搞混,弄乱 tangle completely, to mix, to confuse
tangle sth ⇔ up
The cat has tangled up my wool.

猫把我的毛线搞得乱成了一团。
The wires are all tangled up.

电线都缠在一块了。

tangle with (v.+prep.)

与…勾结 collude with sb
tangle with sb
He is small yet tough, and no one dares to tangle with him.

他个子虽小但却顽强,没有人敢跟他较量。
Jim used to tangle with his brother when he was a little boy.

吉姆小的时候常和弟弟打架。
I shouldn't tangle with Peter, he is bigger than me.

我不应该与彼特吵架,他的块头比我大。
She shouldn't tangle with the kind old man.

她不该和那位善良的老人吵架。 be tangled with sb
I'm sorry to hear that you've been tangled with such unsuitable people.

听说你跟这样的败类搅和在一起,我真感到遗憾。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

• tangle completely 完全缠乱
• tangle designedly 设计混乱
• tangle easily 容易缠结
• tangle economically 经济混乱
• tangle terribly 特别混乱
• tangle up 使完全搞混

～+介词

• tangle in 卷入
• tangle in a quarrel 卷入一场争吵
• tangle with sb 与某人发生纠纷

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. tangle的基本意思是“混乱”。引申可指“打架”。
2. tangle既可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,可接名词或代词作宾语。
3. tangle可接副词up表示“搞混”; 接介词with表示“与…发生冲突”。

近反义词

【近义词】

• knot 结
• snarl 吼叫
• mess 混乱
• web 网
• confuse 使困惑
• twist 缠绕
• involve 包含
• complicate 使复杂化
• maze 迷宫
• mass 大量
• jumble 掺杂
• mesh 网孔
• jam 果酱
• difficulty 困难
• mix-up 混乱
• complication 复杂
• snag (隐伏的)障碍...
• trap 圈套
• come up against 突然(或意外)碰到(困难...
• embarrass 使窘迫
• disorder 混乱
• disrupt 干扰
• jungle 丛林的
• labyrinth 迷宫
• sweep 打扫
• sweep up 打扫
• drag in 拉进
• embroil 使卷入
• drag 拖
• dishevel 使蓬乱
• entangle 使 ... 纠缠
• tousle 弄乱(头发)
• mat 垫子
• ravel 开线

【反义词】

• disentangle 解开