| 单词 | entanglement |
| 释义 | en·tan·gle·ment 1. a. < walnut legs … placed so far under the table that any entanglement with the diners' legs is … avoided — New Yorker > < such waste often causes entanglements and the breaking of whole batches of threads — J.J.Sussmuth > b. c. < there stand the trees … their leafy entanglements thickly loaded — F.R.Leavis > 2. a. < his boy's entanglement with … the child of a gypsy mother — Edith Sitwell > < a well-known entanglement with shady elements seriously injured his chances of reelection > < mistrust of foreign entanglements > b. (1) < lamented that the exigencies and entanglements of business prevented him from giving exclusive attention to chemical research — C.A.Browne > < to Paris she would return whenever she could free herself from the entanglements of the village — L.C.Powys > (2) < contriving many entanglements to catch the souls of poor sinners > < a plot full of entanglements > < I cannot look upon the circumstances of this country, without being persuaded that I discern in them an entanglement … never met with in the history of any other — William Cowper > |
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