tangle的经典引文是：This string is all in a tangle.出自：Oxford English Dictionary。tangle的词语用法是v.(动词)tangle的基本意思是“混乱”。引申可指“打架”。tangle【近义词】knot结。
一、详尽释义点此查看tangle的详细内容
二、双解释义
三、词典解释
1.缠结;纠结;乱糟糟的一团
Atangle of something is a mass of it twisted together in an untidy way.
e.g. Atangle of wires is all that remains of the computer and phone systems...
原来的计算机和电话系统如今只剩下乱糟糟的一团电线。
e.g. There he stood: hair in wildtangles, dark stubble shadowing his chin.
他站在那儿，头发乱成一团，下巴上一片黑胡茬。
2.(使)缠绕;(使)缠结
If somethingis tangled ortangles, it becomes twisted together in an untidy way.
e.g. Animals get tangled in fishing nets and drown...
动物被缠进渔网里淹死了。
e.g. She tried to kick the pajamas loose, but they were tangled in the satin sheet...
她想把睡衣踢脱，可是它却和缎子床单绞到了一块。
3.混乱;纷乱;乱成一团
You can refer to a confusing or complicated situation as atangle .
e.g. I was thinking what atangle we had got ourselves into.
我在想，我们卷入了怎样的纷争之中。
e.g. ...thetangle of domestic politics.
国内政局的错综复杂
4.(思想、局势变得)纷乱，混乱
If ideas or situationsare tangled, they become confused and complicated.
e.g. The themes get tangled in Mr. Mahfouz's epic storytelling...
马赫福兹先生讲述的故事过于宏大，主题有些混乱了。
e.g. You are currently in a muddle where financial and emotional concerns are tangled together.
你眼下头脑不清了，对于金钱和感情的忧虑交织在了一起。
5. a tangled web -> see web
tangled up相关词组：tangle uptangle with
四、例句
The wool got in a fearful tangle.
毛线乱成了一团。
His financial affairs are in such a tangle.
他的钱财是糊涂帐。
We employed a lawyer to straighten our legal tangle.
我们雇了一位律师把法律纠纷理出头绪。
The little girl tangled the yarn her mother was knitting.
小女孩把她妈妈在编结的毛线弄得纠结在一起了。
The wind tangled her hair.
风吹乱了她的头发。
They were tangled in the labour-management controversy.
他们被卷入了劳资纠纷。
He was really a tough guy to tangle with.
他真是一个难缠的人。
The cables on the floor were in a tangle.
地上的电缆乱作一团。
We tangled heatedly over the justice of the war.
我们就这场战争的正义性激烈地争了起来。
五、词汇搭配
六、经典引文
This string is all in a tangle.
出自：Oxford English DictionaryHe freed three fenceposts from the tangle of broken fencing.
出自：J. M. CoetzeeThe knobbly branches growing in a tangle.
出自：U. HoldenTangl'd in the fold Of dire necessity.
出自：MiltonHotels tangled in bankruptcy proceedings.
出自：Time七、词语用法
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