tangle

• n. 紛争；混乱状態
• vt.もつれさせる；混乱状態に置く
• vi.もつれさせる；混乱させる

原語ゲルマン語*のthangul（海藻、海草）に由来する中英語のtagilen（もつれさせる）から。 比喩的用法。

tangle (n.)

1610s, "a tangled condition, a snarl of threads," from tangle (v.).

tangle (v.)

mid-14c., nasalized variant of tagilen "to involve in a difficult situation, entangle," from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Swedish taggla "to disorder," Old Norse tongull "seaweed"), from Proto-Germanic *thangul- (cognates: Frisian tung, Dutch tang, German Tang "seaweed"); thus the original sense of the root evidently was "seaweed" as something that entangles (itself, or oars, or fishes, or nets). "The development of such a verb from a noun of limited use like tangle 1 is somewhat remarkable, and needs confirmation" [Century Dictionary]. In reference to material things, from c. 1500. Meaning "to fight with" is American English, first recorded 1928. Related: Tangled; tangling. Tanglefoot (1859) was Western American English slang for "strong whiskey."

1. Better not tangle with the censors.They 're very vindictive.

検査員と衝突しないほうがいい。彼らはかわいい恨みを抱いている。

2.I was thinking what a tangle we had got ourselves into.

私たちがどのような紛争に巻き込まれているのか考えています。

3.Her hair tends to tangle .

彼女の髪は結び目がつきやすい。

4.a tangle of branches

が絡み合っている枝

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5.We employed a lawyer to straighten our legal tangle .

法律紛争を解決するために弁護士を雇った。