tangle
tangle 英 [ˈtæŋgl] 美 [ˈtæŋɡəl]
n. 纠纷；混乱状态 v. 缠结；乱作一团
进行时:tangling 过去式:tangled 过去分词:tangled 第三人称单数:tangles 名词复数:tangles
- A tangle is a jumble. You might have a tangle of cords behind your computer or a tangle of complications related to your taxes. Whatever it is, once something is in a tangle, it's difficult to sort out.
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- n. 纠纷；混乱状态
- v. 缠结；乱作一团
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1. a tangle of branches
盘绕在一起的树枝
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2. Her hair was a mass of tangles.
她的头发乱糟糟的。
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3. Her hair tends to tangle.
她的头发容易打结。
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4. His financial affairs are in a tangle.
他的财务一塌糊涂。
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5. She had tangled up the sheets on the bed as she lay tossing and turning.
她在床上翻来覆去，把被单弄得乱成一团。
- 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 þongull "seaweed"), from Proto-Germanic *thangul- (source also of 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."
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