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entanglement

/en-tang-guhl-muhnt/US // ɛnˈtæŋ gəl mənt //UK // (ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt) //

纠缠,纠葛,纠结,缠结

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of entangling.
    • : the state of being entangled.
    • : something that entangles; snare; involvement; complication.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncomplication, predicament

Examples

  • Unlike so many other dissidents in recent years, Navalny is untainted by any past entanglement with the system he now opposes.

  • The question of ownership and control also touches other aspects of the entanglement between technology and the food system.

  • Quantum-computer makers hope they’ll be able to harness entanglement to one day achieve bewilderingly fast, parallel processing power in their machines.

  • This idea is an example of a proposal by Maldacena and Leonard Susskind of Stanford in 2013 that quantum entanglement can be thought of as a wormhole.

  • Starring a young Larenz Tate and the incomparable Nia Long, this ’90s rom-dram follows the entanglement of a poet and a photographer — and explores what happens when love is tested.

  • Roosevelt, who was anxious to avoid entanglement in the affair, agreed.

  • The corporate eye does not light up over inappropriate sexual behavior and entanglement with the law.

  • Don is continually in search of that “electric jolt,” whether that comes from illicit behavior or romantic entanglement.

  • Marshall asks as Fuller careens from one disastrous emotional entanglement to another.

  • He may, as French fears, have fallen into some fatal entanglement; it may not be possible to restore his health.

  • So saying, David disengaged his boat-hook from the entanglement of the branches of the poplar-trees.

  • "This is the first barbed-wire entanglement," said Archer, as they approached.

  • His literary idling cannot be said to have been due to this entanglement.

  • But Bunty merely glittered at us through her white-hair entanglement and remained perfectly still.