unravel
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. 解开；阐明；解决；拆散
- vi. 解决；散开
词根记忆
- un(解开) + ravel(纠缠)→解开纠缠→澄清
- un(不) + ravel(纠缠)→拆开，拆散；解开
- un(打开，解开) + ravel(纠缠)→解开纠缠→解开
同根派生
英汉例句
- The stairway carpet is so frayed it threatens to unravel.
铺在楼梯上的地毯磨损得很厉害，都快散了。 - What moves him is the desire to unravel the mysteries of nature.
推动他们的还是解开自然之迷的愿望. - There is still a good deal to unravel.
还有不少问题要澄清. - His government began to unravel because of a banking scandal.
他的政府由于一起金融丑闻而开始瓦解。 - A young mother has flown to Iceland to unravel the mystery of her husband's disappearance.
一位年轻的母亲飞抵冰岛，要揭开她丈夫失踪之谜。
词组短语
- unravel roller 理绳滚轮
- unravel a tangled thread 解开纠缠的线
- unravel water tank 整理水池
- unnameable light and unravel unnameable 轻和破坏
短语
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.
- 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.