untangle

英 [ˌʌnˈtæŋɡl]

美 [ˌʌnˈtæŋɡl]

v.  解开，松开(结子等); 整理; 理清

现在分词：untangling　第三人称单数：untangles　过去式：untangled　过去分词：untangled　

BNC.32632 / COCA.18840

牛津词典

verb

• 解开，松开（结子等）
  to undo string, hair, wire, etc. that has become twisted or has knots in it
• 整理；理清
  to make sth that is complicated or confusing easier to deal with or understand

柯林斯词典

• VERB 解开，解松（绳结）
  If youuntanglesomething that is knotted or has become twisted around something, you undo the knots in it or free it.
  1. He was found desperately trying to untangle several reels of film.
     他被撞见拼命想要解开几盘缠在一起的胶卷。
  2. ...a light, non-sticky mousse which untangles hair and adds brilliant shine.
     一种能理顺头发、增加其光泽的轻柔、无黏性的摩丝
• VERB 排解，解决，处理（混乱或复杂的局面）
  f youuntanglea confused or complicated situation, you make the different things involved clear, or put the situation right.
  1. Lawyers and accountants began trying to untangle the complex affairs of the bank...
     律师和会计师开始着手梳理这家银行复杂的事务。
  2. The problem took three hours to untangle.
     这个问题花了3个小时才解决。

英英释义

verb

• become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
  1. unravel the thread
  Synonym:unravelunknotunscrambleunpick
• release from entanglement of difficulty
  1. I cannot extricate myself from this task
  Synonym:extricatedisentangledisencumber

双语例句

• He's forced to untangle a complex web of financial dealings
  他被迫去理清一堆错综复杂的金融交易。
• Use a wide-toothed comb rather than a brush to untangle hair.
  使用宽齿的梳子梳头，而不是刷子。
• Finally, I managed to untangle the microphone from my neck, and I cruised offstage and back into civilian life.
  最后，我设法解开纠结在我脖子上的绳子，走下舞台，恢复了平静。
• He was found desperately trying to untangle several reels of film.
  他被撞见拼命想要解开几盘缠在一起的胶卷。
• It took ages to untangle her hair.
  梳理她那打结的头发花了很长时间。
• Untangle knitting wool, electric flex.
  解开缠结的毛线、电线。
• Even after isolating a problem down to a few crucial lines of code, it can be difficult to untangle the interleaved events required to make a race condition or deadlock occur.
  甚至在确定了会产生问题的几行关键代码后，依旧难以解耦那些会导致竞态条件或者死锁的交叉存取事件。
• The childe love sleeping out in tents when we go camping. The auditors will untangle all those records.
  野营时，孩子们喜欢露宿帐篷之中。查帐员会把所有这些条子进行清理。
• You have to untangle shared departments, he says, such as environmental safety and finance.
  他表示，首先需要理清各共享部门之间错综复杂的关系，比如环境安全部门和财务部。
• And, if you do need to do an urgent system recovery, you don't want to lose precious time finding large enough disks to restore to and then have to untangle data file systems from your mksysb backup.
  而且，如果您的确需要进行紧急系统恢复，也不想将宝贵的时间都浪费在寻找系统恢复所需的足够磁盘空间以及再在mksysb备份中清理数据文件系统的过程。