释义 |
entwineen‧twine /ɪnˈtwaɪn/ verb [intransitive, transitive]  VERB TABLEentwine |
Present | I, you, we, they | entwine | | he, she, it | entwines | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | entwined | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have entwined | | he, she, it | has entwined | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had entwined | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will entwine | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have entwined |
- Fresh flowers were entwined in her hair.
- A skilled historian is able to entwine his inventory material with evidence gathered from a variety of other sources.
- For helices to entwine together they must be of the same handedness, like the strands of a rope.
► be entwined (with something)- Carnegie Hall is entwined completely with the artistic growth of this country.
- A thin waxy slip of poison ivy was entwined around one of the legs.
- Did Simpson tell them why his hairs were entwined in the knit cap that lay by the bodies?
- Great memories are entwined with this recipe.
- It was raven black and the hair was entwined with a slim rope of gold thread and opals.
- Just as concepts are entwined with perception, so too theory is entwined with experiment.
- The pale woman, bosom exposed, is entwined with a dark man wearing a sullen expression and a skull cap.
1to twist two things together or to wind one thing around another: They walked together with their arms entwined.GRAMMAR Entwine is usually passive when used as a transitive verb.2be entwined (with something) to be closely connected with something in a complicated way: Our views of leadership are entwined with ideas of heroism. |