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

• Still, she seems to be able to hold her own when she tangles with Damon ( Ian Somerhalder). In fact, she gets the upper hand when she steals his daylight ring.
  和达蒙纠缠的时候她依然能招架住，事实上她还占了上风，她偷走了达蒙的日光戒指。
• Using the new method, TB bacteria are grown in a liquid, where they form characteristic tangles that are easily recognised under a microscope.
  在这种新的方法中，结核菌是在液体中培养的，它们在其中形成有特点的缠结，在显微镜下很容易识别。
• Some are using high-powered imaging studies to examine people's brains to look for characteristic plaques and tangles while they are still alive.
  一些研究者使用高能成像系统来检查人脑，以此寻找尚存活患者脑中的蛋白特征斑及蛋白团。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Long hair tangles easily.
  长头发容易缠结。
• 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。
• Messy tangles across a militarily open border.
  不设防边界地段的混乱纠纷。
• Their hair grew long and ragged, in whirls of curls or in knots and tangles.
  头发长而乱，鬈曲打结，缠成一团。