disentangle

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdisentangledis‧en‧tan‧gle /ˌdɪsənˈtæŋɡəl/ verb [transitive] 1 SEPARATEto separate different ideas or pieces of information that have become confused together It’s very difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in what she’s saying.2 → disentangle yourself (from somebody/something)3 TIEto remove knots from ropes, strings etc that have become twisted or tied together4 to separate something from the things that are twisted around it→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusdisentangle• The reasons for these variations are difficult to disentangle.• One arm disentangled itself from the covers, her fingers curling indolently into the fine cotton of the quilt.• Investigators had to disentangle Maxwell's complicated financial affairs.• Our concern here is not to try to disentangle New Liberalism from Fabian socialist thought.• It is hard to disentangle propaganda from fantasy.• As these examples suggest, it becomes increasingly difficult to disentangle royal and ducal retinues.• However, they can be disentangled sufficiently to allow our study of lexical semantics to proceed.• The balls of wool were all mixed up, and I couldn't disentangle them.• In politics, it is seldom easy to disentangle what is right from what is handy.

单词	disentangle
释义	disentangle From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdisentangledis‧en‧tan‧gle /ˌdɪsənˈtæŋɡəl/ verb [transitive] 1 SEPARATEto separate different ideas or pieces of information that have become confused together It’s very difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in what she’s saying.2 → disentangle yourself (from somebody/something)3 TIEto remove knots from ropes, strings etc that have become twisted or tied together4 to separate something from the things that are twisted around it→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusdisentangle• The reasons for these variations are difficult to disentangle.• One arm disentangled itself from the covers, her fingers curling indolently into the fine cotton of the quilt.• Investigators had to disentangle Maxwell's complicated financial affairs.• Our concern here is not to try to disentangle New Liberalism from Fabian socialist thought.• It is hard to disentangle propaganda from fantasy.• As these examples suggest, it becomes increasingly difficult to disentangle royal and ducal retinues.• However, they can be disentangled sufficiently to allow our study of lexical semantics to proceed.• The balls of wool were all mixed up, and I couldn't disentangle them.• In politics, it is seldom easy to disentangle what is right from what is handy.
随便看	go down by 250 etc go down by 900 etc go down like a lead balloon go down like ninepins go down on go down on somebody go down the aisle go down the pan go down the plughole go down the Swanee go down the tubes go down this road go down to the wire go down with go down with go down with a cold go down with something go downhill go downmarket go dry go Dutch go Dutch (with somebody) go Dutch with go easy on go easy on