1RELATIONSHIP[countableC] a difficult situation or relationship that is hard to escape from 牵连;瓜葛
She had always been afraid of any emotional entanglements.
她总是害怕陷入感情纠葛。
2.[uncountableU] when something becomes entangled in something 纠缠,缠住
3.[countableC often plural]PMD a fence made of barbed wire that preventsenemysoldiers from getting too close 〔阻止敌人接近的〕带刺铁丝网围栏
Examples from the Corpus
entanglement• Because she herself had subsequently been extremely wary of any emotionalentanglements.• Irrational perhaps, but they approach their misery from entirely different directions and ethnicentanglements.• The only intrusion is the one I let in myself when I enlisted Shelly, and with Shelly all her grubbyentanglements.• During most of Alexander's reign, the regime had carefully avoided all but minormilitaryentanglements.• A good hour later, following numerousentanglements of rope in a tree, we arrived safely back to earth.• Furthermore, school supervision of the activities is precisely the kind of entanglement that is impermissible under constitutionalprecedents.• Mr Anderson said there was a risk of entanglement during operation and the company was required by law to provide covers.• political entanglements• The accumulation of obligations made it nearly impossible for the children to pryloose from the entanglement.