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

• 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。
• Politicians must avoid personal entanglements if they want to EET elected.
  如果想当选，政客们必须避免个人的种种纠葛。
• 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。
• 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。
• Environmental considerations such as exceeding planned depth, encountering currents, cold exposure, entanglements, and narcosis.
  环境考虑，如超出预定深度，遭遇水流，冷暴露，纠缠和昏迷状态。
• Was she unhappy? Any unfortunate entanglements?
  她是否感到闷闷不乐？有没有那种倒霉的纠缠不清的事情？
• Yet we have the feeling of being independent and separate from all these entanglements and relationships, a feeling that is designated by the logically uncertain concept "freedom".
  然而我们有那种（从这些纠结和关系中独立且分离）的感觉，这种感觉就是所谓逻辑上很不确定的概念「自由」。
• For years Uncle Tom had avoided emotional entanglements.
  好多年来汤姆叔叔一直避免感情上的纠缠。
• A national balance sheet soaked in red ink says the US can anyway no longer afford such entanglements.
  无论如何，国家资产负债表出现严重赤字，说明美国不再能够承受这样的干预。
• 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。