embroil
embroil 英 [ɪmˈbrɔɪl] 美 [ɪm'brɔɪl]
vt. 使卷入；使混乱
进行时:embroiling 过去式:embroiled 过去分词:embroiled 第三人称单数:embroils 名词复数:embroils
- To embroil is to drag someone into a mess. If you're embroiled, you're in deep. Being embroiled is far worse, far messier, and generally far more long-term, than simply being "involved" with something. Nothing good can come of being embroiled.
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- vt. 使卷入；使混乱
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1. The Times continues to clamour for the nation to range itself beside Russia and France, and to embroil itself in the great continental war that is arising before us.
泰晤士报仍在呼吁政府与俄、法并肩作战，加入到眼前这场欧洲大陆上的大战中。
- embroil (v.) c. 1600, "throw into disorder," from French embrouillier "entangle, confuse, embroil" (cognate of Italian imbrogliare), from assimilated form of en- "in" (see en- (1)) + brouiller "confuse," from Old French brooillier "to mix, mingle," figuratively "to have sexual intercourse" (13c., Modern French brouiller), perhaps from breu, bro "stock, broth, brew," from Frankish or another Germanic source (compare Old High German brod "broth"), from PIE root *bhreu- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn." Compare broil (v.2). Sense of "involve in a quarrel" is first attested c. 1610. Related: Embroiled; embroiling. Embrangle "mix confusedly" is from 1660s.
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