tangles

英 [ˈtæŋɡlz]

美 [ˈtæŋɡlz]

n.  (线、毛发等的)缠结的一团，乱团，乱糟糟的一堆; 混乱; 纷乱; 纠纷; 不和; 争执; 打架
v.  使缠结; 纠结; 乱作一团
tangle的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 缠结;纠结;乱糟糟的一团
  Atangle ofsomething is a mass of it twisted together in an untidy way.
  1. A tangle of wires is all that remains of the computer and phone systems...
     原来的计算机和电话系统如今只剩下乱糟糟的一团电线。
  2. There he stood: hair in wild tangles, dark stubble shadowing his chin.
     他站在那儿，头发乱成一团，下巴上一片黑胡茬。
• V-ERG (使)缠绕;(使)缠结
  If somethingis tangledortangles, it becomes twisted together in an untidy way.
  1. Animals get tangled in fishing nets and drown...
     动物被缠进渔网里淹死了。
  2. She tried to kick the pajamas loose, but they were tangled in the satin sheet...
     她想把睡衣踢脱，可是它却和缎子床单绞到了一块。
  3. Lee and I fell in a tangled heap...
     李和我扭作一团，摔倒在地。
  4. Her hair tends to tangle...
     她的头发容易打结。
  5. He suggested that tangling fishing gear should be made a criminal offence.
     他提议，缠绕捕鱼器材应该算刑事犯罪。
• N-SING 混乱;纷乱;乱成一团
  You can refer to a confusing or complicated situation as atangle.
  1. I was thinking what a tangle we had got ourselves into.
     我在想，我们卷入了怎样的纷争之中。
  2. ...the tangle of domestic politics.
     国内政局的错综复杂
• VERB (思想、局势变得)纷乱，混乱
  If ideas or situationsare tangled, they become confused and complicated.
  1. The themes get tangled in Mr. Mahfouz's epic storytelling...
     马赫福兹先生讲述的故事过于宏大，主题有些混乱了。
  2. You are currently in a muddle where financial and emotional concerns are tangled together.
     你眼下头脑不清了，对于金钱和感情的忧虑交织在了一起。
• a tangled web→ see:web

双语例句

• Social Venture Partners 'Shoemaker says he only helps non-profits with their accounting, legal tangles or with personnel problems.
  SocialVenturePartners的休梅克表示，他只帮助非营利机构处理账目、法律争议或人事问题。
• Tangles like this still interrupted their intercourse.
  像这类纠缠不清的误会仍然妨碍着他们的交情。
• Firstly, a modified fuzzy C means method is used on the RGB color space to identify senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in microscopic image of the hippocampus separately.
  利用改进的模糊C均值算法对彩色图像的颜色信息进行聚类，分别提取了老年斑和神经元纤维缠结目标。
• Treatments are being developed to prevent the accumulation of cerebral plaques and tangles or to desegregate them once they are present.
  目前正在开发的治疗手段旨在阻止大脑中斑块和缠结的蓄积，或者当它们产生时能够被清除。
• Eventually, brain cells are lost, and there is accumulation of abnormal peptides in plaques, as well as neurofibrillary tangles.
  最终，脑细胞会丢失，并且存在异常肽聚集板块以及神经纤维团。
• Scientists have moved away from plaque and tangles in the brain toward developing better treatments for the disease.
  科学家关于阿尔茨海默病的研究重心已从病理学的神经纤维斑块和纤维缠结转向研究更好的治疗措施。
• There he stood: hair in wild tangles, dark stubble shadowing his chin.
  他站在那儿，头发乱成一团，下巴上一片黑胡茬。
• They report that minimal gradual memory declines were seen in the absence of tangles, while Lewy bodies and strokes doubled the rate of gradual memory loss.
  他们报告微小逐渐的记忆力下降被发现存在纤维丛，当路易小体和中风将逐渐记忆力下降的速率加倍时。
• A decade ago, scientists created mice that developed the so-called plaques and tangles that accumulate in the brains of people with the disease.
  十几年前，科学家们创造了一种小鼠，能产生那些所谓的在患者脑内累积的斑块和纠结。
• Along the narrative lines there were knots, tangles of horror that we could not look at first time, but could only touch before retreating, and then return.
  沿着叙事的主线布满了死结和恐惧的纠结，我们一开始无法正视它们，只能在退下之前触碰一下，然后重新回来。