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ravel

/rav-uhl/US // ˈræv əl //UK // (ˈrævəl) //

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v.有主动词 verb
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    rav·eled, rav·el·ing or rav·elled, rav·el·ling.

    • : to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of.
    • : to tangle or entangle.
    • : to involve; confuse; perplex.
    • : to make clear; unravel.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    rav·eled, rav·el·ing or rav·elled, rav·el·ling.

    • : to become disjoined thread by thread or fiber by fiber; fray.
    • : to become tangled.
    • : to become confused or perplexed.
    • : to lose aggregate.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a tangle or complication.

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Examples

  • Ravel said Hughes’ agreement to help cover costs should the deal go south were particularly troubling.

  • “I just don’t think you can say that there’s a clear legal standard here,” Ravel said.

  • So I started off with two influences: Ravel, directly, and also Bill Evans.

  • I associate Ravel with your music from the beginning of your career.

  • It was obvious to me that Bill Evans was influenced by Ravel, too.

  • At most, the piece underlines a common notion of Ravel as predicting later, more strenuously modern music.

  • What you hear could be Ravel reworking his own thoughts on music, if he'd lived into the 1960s.

  • Andrew Harben began to wonder where it would end and what he would do when he had no more pants to ravel.

  • No, that's true; for you shall have one woman knit more in an hour, than any man can ravel again in seven-and-twenty years.

  • Mark all notches with basting thread, tailor's chalk, or notch the goods if it does not ravel.

  • The marking thread should be through every stitch so that they cannot ravel.

  • They ravel more, still less resolved: they become more confused, and ever less disentangled.