tangle
英['t??g(?)l]
美['t??ɡl]
- n. 糾紛；混亂狀態
- vt. 使糾纏；處于混亂狀態
- vi. 纏結；亂作一團
詞態變化
復數:?tangles;第三人稱單數:?tangles;過去式:?tangled;過去分詞:?tangled;現在分詞:?tangling;
中文詞源
tangle 使纏結，糾結
來自中古英語 tagilen,卷入，纏結，來自 Proto-Germanic*thangul,海藻，海草，詞源同 entangle. 比喻用法。
英文詞源
- tangle (n.)
- 1610s, "a tangled condition, a snarl of threads," from tangle (v.).
- tangle (v.)
- mid-14c., nasalized variant of tagilen "to involve in a difficult situation, entangle," from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Swedish taggla "to disorder," Old Norse tongull "seaweed"), from Proto-Germanic *thangul- (cognates: Frisian tung, Dutch tang, German Tang "seaweed"); thus the original sense of the root evidently was "seaweed" as something that entangles (itself, or oars, or fishes, or nets). "The development of such a verb from a noun of limited use like tangle 1 is somewhat remarkable, and needs confirmation" [Century Dictionary]. In reference to material things, from c. 1500. Meaning "to fight with" is American English, first recorded 1928. Related: Tangled; tangling. Tanglefoot (1859) was Western American English slang for "strong whiskey."
雙語例句
- 1. Better not tangle with the censors. They're very vindictive.
- 最好別和檢查員發生沖突，他們可愛記仇了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I was thinking what a tangle we had got ourselves into.
- 我在想，我們卷入了怎樣的紛爭之中。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Her hair tends to tangle.
- 她的頭發容易打結。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. a tangle of branches
- 盤繞（糾結）在一起的樹枝
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. We employed a lawyer to straighten our legal tangle.
- 我們雇了一位律師把法律糾紛理出頭緒.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》