资料来源 : pyDict
使纠缠,卷入,使混乱
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Entangle \En*tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Entangled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Entangling}.]
1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be
easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and
intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication
a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to
insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to
entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. ``Entangling
alliances.'' --Washington.
The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and
entangle their understandings. --Locke.
Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose
future was so uncertain. --Froude.
资料来源 : WordNet®
entangle
v 1: entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: {mire}]
2: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child
entangled the cord" [syn: {tangle}, {mat}, {snarl}] [ant:
{disentangle}, {disentangle}]