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

• 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。
• As your columnist's children grow up, the need to untangle their tantrums, feuds and nonsense is becoming pleasingly rare.
  令人欣慰的是，当你专栏作家的孩子长大了，要解开他们的怨怒、积怨和冒失的需要，变得微乎其微。
• 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。
• 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。
• Can you untangle this thread for me? I'm all thumbs today.
  你能帮我解开这条线吗？我今天笨手笨脚的。
• Such reform would untangle the web that led to government intervention and the creation of the untenable paradigm of "too interconnected to fail".
  这些改革将清理这样的一个网络该网络导致了政府干预，也造就了站不住脚的“相互关系过于紧密，以至于不能破产”模式。
• 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。
• It would probably take years of psychoanalysis to untangle that contradiction, not to mention others too sensitive to name here.
  可能要通过许多年的心理分析才能解开这个迷，更不要说那些因为太敏感而不便在此提及的事。
• He was good with his hands and could unravel a knot or untangle yarn that others wouldn't even attempt
  他的手很灵巧，其他人甚至都不敢尝试的一些难解的绳结或缠在一起的纱线，他都能解开。
• The new findings promise to help untangle the early molecular events of a syndrome at the root of one of the world's most significant health issues.
  该新发现有希望帮助从根本上解开作为世界上最重要健康问题之一的代谢综合症的早期分子事件。