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tangle

/tang-guhl/US // ˈtæŋ gəl //UK // (ˈtæŋɡəl) //

缠结,缠住,纠缠,缠绵

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    tan·gled, tan·gling.

    • : to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
    • : to involve in something that hampers, obstructs, or overgrows: The bushes were tangled with vines.
    • : to catch and hold in or as if in a net or snare.
v.无主动词 verb
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    tan·gled, tan·gling.

    • : to be or become tangled.
    • : Informal. to come into conflict; fight or argue: I don't want to tangle with him over the new ruling.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a tangled condition or situation.
    • : a tangled or confused mass or assemblage of something.
    • : a confused jumble: a tangle of contradictory statements.
    • : Informal. a conflict; disagreement: He got into a tangle with the governor.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbknot, complicate
Forms: tangled

Examples

  • Say goodbye to tangles—this 19-inch, three-tier design allows you to easily store necklaces of a variety of shapes and sizes.

  • Meyer, who founded The Commons Project Foundation last year, says that as they began building the coronavirus platform, they realized that the confounding tangle of regulations was a major obstacle to reviving travel.

  • Similarly, in subatomic physics, renormalization tells physicists when they can deal with a relatively simple proton as opposed to its tangle of interior quarks.

  • You can fish this setup as a hand line, but tangles are inevitable.

  • Tenet’s Labor Day weekend release, then, faces a tangle of uncertainty.

  • The process was a maddening tangle of unreliable tracking, delays, and confusion, the family member said.

  • The tangle of enormous fake diamonds resting on top of her cleavage sparkles at every flashbulb.

  • It was litigation as entertainment—a farcical tangle of events that titillated a ready, willing, and able country.

  • Pettet threw his head back and laughed as he recounted his tangle with the police.

  • The profession remains a knotty tangle of influences and causations and aggravations and insurers.

  • You only misunderstand each other, and with a little good will on both sides you can easily get out of your tangle.'

  • She went and stood at an open window and looked out upon the deep tangle of the garden below.

  • I saw three kinds of sea-tangle, but could only obtain a specimen of one, resembling that which I had seen in 44° South lat.

  • George jerked his peaked cap from his head, revealing a tangle of unkempt red hair.

  • The orchard ran down a slope of perhaps half an acre to the ferny tangle of the brook bed.