embroil
英式音标：embroil怎么读
美式音标：embroil怎么读
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embroil词义
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vt. 使卷入；使混乱
词态变化
第三人称单数: embroils;过去式: embroiled;过去分词: embroiled;现在分词: embroiling;
中文词源
embroil 使卷入纠纷
em-, 进入，使。-broil, 蒸，煮，词源同brew. 原指各种原料炖成一锅。
embroil双语例句
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- 1. Any hostilities could result in retaliation and further embroil U.N. troops in fighting.
- 任何敌对行为都可能招致报复，进而使联合国部队卷入战斗。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. If time grew, probable meeting embroil arrives pupil, cause blindness!
- 假如时间长了, 很可能会牵连到瞳孔, 造成失明!
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embroil英文词源
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- embroil (v.)
- c. 1600, "throw into disorder," from French embrouillier "entangle, confuse, embroil" (cognate of Italian imbrogliare), from assimilated form of en- "in" (see en- (1)) + brouiller "confuse," from Old French brooillier (see broil (v.2)). Sense of "involve in a quarrel" is first attested c. 1610. Related: Embroiled; embroiling. Embrangle "mix confusedly" is from 1660s.