en·tan·gle /ɪnˈtæŋgəl, ɛn-/
(vt.)使糾纏,捲入,使混亂
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.”
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.
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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]