tangle

英 ['t??g(?)l] 美['t??ɡl]

反義詞

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復數:?tangles;第三人稱單數:?tangles;過去式:?tangled;過去分詞:?tangled;現在分詞:?tangling;

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。

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.: 最好別和檢查員發生沖突，他們可愛記仇了。

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之中。

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