英语词汇“unravel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

VERB TABLE

unravel

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	unravel
	he, she, it	unravels
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	unravelled (BrE), unraveled (AmE)
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have unravelled (BrE), unraveled (AmE)
	he, she, it	has unravelled (BrE), unraveled (AmE)
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had unravelled (BrE), unraveled (AmE)
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will unravel
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have unravelled (BrE), unraveled (AmE)

Continuous Form
Present	I	am unravelling (BrE), unraveling (AmE)
	he, she, it	is unravelling (BrE), unraveling (AmE)
	you, we, they	are unravelling (BrE), unraveling (AmE)
Past	I, he, she, it	was unravelling (BrE), unraveling (AmE)
	you, we, they	were unravelling (BrE), unraveling (AmE)
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been unravelling (BrE), unraveling (AmE)
	he, she, it	has been unravelling (BrE), unraveling (AmE)
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been unravelling (BrE), unraveling (AmE)
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be unravelling (BrE), unraveling (AmE)
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been unravelling (BrE), unraveling (AmE)

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

After three years, their partnership began to unravel.
Can scientists unravel the complex interactions of chemicals within foods?
Scientists have not yet unraveled every detail of how genes work.
We are only just beginning to unravel the mysteries of the human brain.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Each circle strengthens the others, until the whole is hard to unravel.
Evidence for the importance of both is emerging, and unravelling their relative importance presents experimentalists with a major challenge.
I do not claim to be able to unravel the complexities of atonement.
Pop that unravels its own workings, undoes itself.
Sadly, this will unravel some of the goodwill of recent weeks.
To counter the danger of the former, Lacan would have us unravel the me entirely.
We can also unravel those texts as individual answers to the problem of effective human agency.

Longman Language Activatorto find the answer or explanation to something► solve

to find the explanation to something that is difficult to understand, for example a crime or a mystery: · The role of the press is to sell newspapers, not to solve crime.· At last astronomers have solved the mystery of the rings encircling the planet Saturn.· These games encourage children's ability to solve puzzles using their mathematical skills.

► figure out/work out

to find the explanation for something that is difficult to understand, by thinking carefully about it and using the information available to you: figure out/work out how/why/what etc: · My husband bought me a knitting machine for Christmas but I still haven't figured out how it works.· From the evidence gathered from witnesses we should be able to work out what happened that night.figure/work out something: · The police haven't even managed to figure out a motive.figure/work something out: · Don't tell him the answer - let him work it out for himself.

► find an explanation

to find a way of explaining something, especially after trying for a fairly long time: · Sheena has had these stomach pains before, but the doctors think they have found an explanation this time.find an explanation for: · No one has been able to find a rational explanation for the ship's sudden disappearance.

► clear up

to find the whole explanation for something that is strange and difficult to understand, so that it is completely solved: clear up something: · I was hoping that your research would clear up a question that has been bothering me.clear something up: · Can you clear something up for us? How old are you?· The Dreyfus case was never completely cleared up. It remains a mystery.

► crack

informal to find the explanation for something such as a crime or something that is difficult to understand, especially after trying for a long time: · It's a tough case but I'm determined to crack it.· Give Tom a mathematical puzzle and he'll just keep on trying till he cracks it.

► unravel

to gradually find the explanation for something that is difficult to understand because it is very complicated: · We are only just beginning to unravel the mysteries of the human brain.· Can scientists unravel the complex interactions of chemicals within foods?

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► solve/unravel a mystery

(=find out what happened)· The children were given the clues and had to try to solve the mystery.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► mystery

· When scientists attempt to unravel the mysteries of the past they always run up against a brick wall.· A prepared statement failed to unravel the mystery.· It excited her and she promised herself that one day she would unravel the mystery.· For many years Frederick Delouche felt a particular need to unravel such mysteries.

VERB► begin

· Even to list these begins to unravel some of the complications in this everyday concept.· But then things began to unravel.· The case began unravelling when the intelligence ministry said renegade agents were responsible.· When California's economy started to slow down, the loans began to unravel.

► try

· Here are the issues put starkly, before we try to unravel them.· When Philip tries to unravel truth from fiction, the task proves too much for him.