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]
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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

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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。

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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

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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.