流逝汉英词典

unravel

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ʌnˈræv.əl]
  • 美式音标 [ʌnˈræv.əl]
  • 国际音标 [,ʌn'rævəl]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • vt. 解開；闡明；解決；拆散
  • vi. 解決；散開

词根记忆

  • un(解開) + ravel(糾纏)→解開糾纏→澄清
  • un(不) + ravel(糾纏)→拆開，拆散；解開
  • un(打開，解開) + ravel(糾纏)→解開糾纏→解開

同根派生

     

英汉例句

  • The stairway carpet is so frayed it threatens to unravel.
    鋪在樓梯上的地毯磨損得很厲害，都快散了。
  • What moves him is the desire to unravel the mysteries of nature.
    推動他們的還是解開自然之迷的願望.
  • There is still a good deal to unravel.
    還有不少問題要澄清.
  • His government began to unravel because of a banking scandal.
    他的政府由於一起金融醜聞而開始瓦解。
  • A young mother has flown to Iceland to unravel the mystery of her husband's disappearance.
    一位年輕的母親飛觝冰島，要揭開她丈夫失蹤之謎。

词组短语

    短語

  • unravel roller 理繩滾輪
  • unravel a tangled thread 解開糾纏的線
  • unravel water tank 整理水池
  • unnameable light and unravel unnameable 輕和破壞

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • (CLOTH) If a piece of knitted or woven cloth, a knot, or a mass of thread unravels, it separates into a single thread, and if you unravel it, you separate it into a single thread.
  • (SUBJECT) If you unravel a mysterious, unknown, or complicated subject, you make it known or understood, and if it unravels, it becomes known or understood.
  • (PROCESS) If a process or achievement that was slow and complicated unravels or is unravelled, it is destroyed.

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • AM unraveling, unraveled
  • If you unravel a mystery or puzzle, or it unravels, it gradually becomes clearer until you can work out the answer to it.