tangle

英 ['t??g(?)l] 美['t??ɡl]

反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?tangles;第三人稱單數(shù):?tangles;過(guò)去式:?tangled;過(guò)去分詞:?tangled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?tangling;

tangle 使纏結(jié)，糾結(jié)

來(lái)自中古英語(yǔ) tagilen,卷入，纏結(jié)，來(lái)自 Proto-Germanic*thangul,海藻，海草，詞源同 entangle. 比喻用法。

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."

1. Better not tangle with the censors. They're very vindictive.: 最好別和檢查員發(fā)生沖突，他們可愛(ài)記仇了。

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(zhēng)之中。