| 英语单词 | entwine |
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| 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 [V-ed] [Also V
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]
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