entanglements

英 [ɪnˈtæŋglmənts]

美 [ɛnˈtæŋgəlmənts]

n.  瓜葛; 牵连; 纠缠; 缠住; 铁丝网(用以阻止敌人靠近)
entanglement的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 复杂关系（或情况）；纠葛;瓜葛
  Anentanglementis a complicated or difficult relationship or situation.
  1. ...romantic entangle-ments.
     爱情纠葛
  2. ...a military and political entanglement the Government probably doesn't want.
     政府可能并不想看到的军政之间的纠葛
• N-VAR 纠缠;缠绕;缠住
  If things become entangled, you can refer to this asentanglement.
  1. Many dolphins are accidentally killed through entanglement with fishing equipment.
     很多海豚因为被渔具缠住而意外死亡。

双语例句

• Or they should seek to slice through the entanglements, cordoning off the dangerous bits.
  或者通过分割理顺互相纠结的混乱关联并砍掉危险的部门。
• He felt melancholy after he failed the exam. Was she unhappy? Any unfortunate entanglements?
  这次考试没通过，他感到很郁闷。她是否感到闷闷不乐？有没有那种倒霉的纠缠不清的事情？
• How long might the restructuring and sale of Citigroup take, with its huge global entanglements?
  那么重组并出售拥有庞大全球业务的花旗集团要花费多长时间呢？
• The research and development of high-tech weapons concentratedly reflects the moral entanglements and forefront contradictions between the development of science and technology and the living of human beings, and it has strong and complicated ethical significance.
  摘要高技术武器研发集中体现了科技发展与人类生存的道德纠结与前沿矛盾，具有强烈而复杂的伦理意蕴。
• He was convinced that to fully experience the Divine, humanity needed to be free of dogma and free of entanglements associated with values or expectation.
  他很确信，人类要人类全然的去经验神性，就需要从这些教义中解脱，同时也要从价值观和期望相关的纠扯中解脱。
• When I return home, I am always surprised to find some questions I sought to evade had been answered and some entanglements I had hoped to flee had become unraveled in my absence.
  当我“逃亡一天”回到家中，我总是会惊喜地发现原来试图逃避的问题和纠缠已经在我消失的那一天迎刃而解了。
• Quantum entanglements mean that states observed in one correlated particle have consequences for the observed state of another correlated particle, making eavesdropping a physical impossibility.
  量子纠缠理论指出在某个关联粒子上观测到的物质形态必定产生另一个与之相关的物质形态的粒子，这个理论使得窃取在物理层面变为不可能的事情。
• Over the past 20 years, it has become apparent that swiftly agreed-upon military actions can lead to entanglements that last for many years.
  在过去20年里，一个越来越明显的事实是，迅速商定的军事行动可能导致持续多年的卷入。
• The Whigs were right to believe it would be impossible to avoid European entanglements.
  辉格党正确地认为，避开欧洲纠葛将是不可能的。
• Franklin Roosevelt once said, Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
  富兰克林罗斯福曾说：我国不介入国外战争和国外纠葛的决心不能阻止我们在我们所珍视的理念和原则受到挑战的时候深深地感到关切。