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Entwine D Lives Entwined   [V Fingers Flowers I

英语单词 entwine
英美音标 英 [ɪn'twaɪn] 美 [ɪn'twaɪn]
中文释义 v.(使) 缠绕;纠缠
英语例句 (1) The plant will entwine round the stick as it grows.
(2) They walked along with (their) arms entwined.
中文例句 (1) 这种植物会缠绕着竿子生长。
(2) 他们挽著胳膊走去。
vocabulary简明 To entwine is to twist and tangle or weave together. When you hold hands with someone, you entwine your fingers together.
vocabulary扩展 A long-haired girl can entwine flowers in her curls, and she might love it when her pet snake entwines around her arm. When you knit a scarf, you entwine different colors of yarn together. There is also a figurative way to entwine: "Ever since I met you, I knew that our lives would entwine together!" Entwine combines the prefix en-, "make," and twine, "twisted strands," from the Old English twin, "double thread."
柯林斯解释
1
[V-RECIP-ERG ](使)缠绕;(使)盘绕 If one thing is entwined with another thing, or if you entwine two things, the two things are twisted around each other.
  [pl-n V]
  [V pl-n]
  [V n with n]
  [V-ed]
  [Also V with n]
  • His dazed eyes stare at the eels, which still writhe and entwine...

    他茫然地盯着仍在翻滚缠绕的鳗鱼。

  • Facing each other, the giraffes were managing to entwine their necks in the most astonishing manner...

    长颈鹿正面对面地用力将脖子缠绕在一起,那种姿势令人大为惊诧。

  • He entwined his fingers with hers.

    他和她十指相扣。

  • ...with silk ribbons and flowers entwined in their hair.

    她们的头发上缠着丝带和花儿

2
[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](使)纠缠;(使)紧密相连 If two things entwine or are entwined, they closely resemble or are linked to each other, and they are difficult to separate or identify.
  [V pl-n]
  [pl-n V]
  • The book entwines the personal and the political to chart the history of four generations of the family...

    那本书将个人和政治联系在一起,描述该家族四代人的历史。

  • Once, years ago, he told me our lives should entwine.

    多年前,他曾经对我说我们应该生活在一起。

entwined
  • ...before media manipulation became entwined with management.

    在媒体操纵渗透进管理之前

  • ...the entwined lives of Dorothy Gale and Judy Garland.

    桃乐丝和朱迪·加兰交织在一起的人生

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