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词根:embroil
vt.embroil 使卷入;使混乱
French embrouiller, from Middle French, from en- + brouiller to jumble, from Old French brooilier, from Vulgar Latin *brodiculare — more at broil
The first known use of embroil was in 1603
embryologynoun
a branch of biology dealing with embryos and their development
the facts and events characteristic of the development of an embryo
embryologynoun
a branch of biology dealing with embryos and their development
the facts and events characteristic of the development of an embryo
embryonoun
an animal in the early stages of development that are marked by cleavage, the laying down of the basic tissues, and the formation of primitive organs and organ systems compare fetus
a tiny young plant within a seed
a beginning or undeveloped stage—used especially in the phrase in embryo
embroilverb
to throw into disorder or confusion
to involve in conflict or difficulties
embroiled in a lawsuit
1 The Alien and Sedition Laws were passed in order to suppress agitation tending to produce such embroilment.
2 We have not shown an ungenerous exultation at the embroilments of European politics, as diverting the hostile attention of enemies from our own affairs.
3 What takes up the book’s pages instead is Bill’s embroilment in another matter of questionable scaffolding: construction-related fraud in the condo board of the high-rise where Bill’s father, Melsor, lives.
4 We should lose the best spice for our wine, the best toy for our games, and, mon Dieu! what embroilments there would be!
5 It is obvious to any one knowing the fierce zeal of partisan politics how this course on the part of the Mormons would subject them to constant embroilments with surrounding citizens.
6 The Federalists, who counted Washington, Hamilton, and John Adams as their representative men, were opposed to any connection with European strife, or to any fresh embroilment with England, growing out of it.
7 His own affair with Swan Carlson had been sordid enough, but this unlucky embroilment in which Reid had killed a man was a plain misfortune to the hero of the fight.
8 “I might have my fair share of embroilments that the media seems to like,” he said.
9 The Lacuna has sound merits – detailed research, edgy political embroilment, lush imagery – and the Mexican scenes and depictions of the imperious Kahlo, especially, are spot-on.
10 She was sick at heart to think that in return for the unceasing kindness Lionel had shown her since her arrival in England, she should be the means of drawing him into this foolish embroilment.
11 Now, the means of warlike enterprise, as well as of unadvised embroilment, is always in the last analysis the patriotic spirit of the nation.
12 But the whole situation in these southeastern countries because of their utter disorganization and their hopeless embroilment in conflict with each other, was too impossible.
13 The embroilment of Carthage with the Grecian States on this island was the occasion of the first rupture with Rome.
14 Jafari, as quoted by Tasnim, also warned the United States that it risked embroilment in a costly and protracted struggle if it intervened in Syria.
15 It all nominally belonged to the State, which, however, granted no titles; “squatters” took up land where they chose without determined limits, and the embroilment continues, in a measure, to the present day.
16 Russia’s cynical self-interest remains, alas, unfettered by the United States as fear of embroilment and preoccupation with November’s elections paralyses them.
17 Pompeo likes to claim he has brought “swagger” to the state department, but the treatment of Yovanovitch and the state department’s embroilment in the impeachment scandal has badly hit morale at the organisation.
18 Despite these embroilments, I am, in this case, able to reach a conclusion satisfactory to myself, a thing which, in the affair of the Casket Letters and Queen Mary, I was unable to do.
19 That is the overriding reason why they have long tiptoed around the prospect of embroilment in the Syrian affair.
20 He was reluctant to plunge into the embroilment; but the great urgency and the abundant assurances of support placed little less than actual compulsion upon him.
1 混乱
involved confused chaotic tangled upside-down disorderly disordered haywire snafu jumbled shapeless turbid topsy-turvy rough-and-tumble addled mixed-up mazy snarly pell-mell hurly-burly rafferty tangly perturbative mussily out chaotically confusedly betanglement tohubohu Babelization dispeace ball-up babelism mix mess coil upset confusion complication chaos jungle litter disruption clutter melee tumble to-do turmoil tangle whirlpool abyss huddle anarchy dislocation jumble muddle snarl mix-up turbidity disorganization tailspin derangement muss demoralization involution ravel mess-up foul-up bollix disorganisation cockup disorderliness deray disarrangement bedevilment hugger-mugger snarl-up hurry-scurry topsyturviness bazodee spin disorder shake confuse disrupt unsettle perplex embroil disarray dislocate disorganize demoralize perturb tousle balls discomfit garble bemuse becloud make hay of off the rails printer's pie in disorder in a whirl go haywire in confusion