entanglement
英 [?n't??g(?)lm(?)nt; en-]
美[?n't??ɡlm?nt]
- n. 糾纏；鐵絲網；纏繞物；牽連
TOEFL
詞態變化
復數:?entanglements;
英文詞源
- entanglement (n.)
- 1630s, "that which entangles," from entangle + -ment. From 1680s as "act of entangling." Foreign entanglements does not appear as such in Washington's Farewell Address (1796), though he warns against them. The phrase is found in William Coxe's 1798 memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole.
雙語例句
- 1. Many dolphins are accidentally killed through entanglement with fishing equipment.
- 很多海豚因為被漁具纏住而意外死亡。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Many dolphins die each year from entanglement in fishing nets.
- 每年都有許多海豚被捕魚網纏繞致死。
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. This entanglement made Carrie anxious for a change of some sort.
- 這種糾葛弄得嘉莉急于改變一下.
來自英漢文學 - 嘉莉妹妹
- 4. I long to exert a fraction of Samson's strength, and break the entanglement like tow!
- 我渴望運用一點山姆森的力氣, 把這一團亂絲象拉繩子般地拉斷!
來自辭典例句
- 5. There is some uncertainty about this entanglement with the city treasurer which you say exists.
- 對于你所說的與市財政局長之間的糾葛,大家有些疑惑.
來自辭典例句