disentangle

1. V-T If you disentangle a complicated or confused situation, you make it easier to understand or manage to understand it, by clearly recognizing each separate element. 理解(復(fù)雜混亂的狀況)

In this new book, Harrison brilliantly disentangles complex debates. 在這本新書里，哈里森出色地在復(fù)雜的爭論中理順了頭緒。

It's impossible to disentangle the myth from reality. 分清神話和現(xiàn)實(shí)是不可能的。

2. V-T If you disentangle something or someone from an undesirable thing or situation, you separate it from that thing or remove it from that situation. 使擺脫

They are looking at ways to disentangle him from this major policy decision. 他們正在尋找把他從這項(xiàng)重大政治決定中解脫出來的辦法。

3. V-T If you disentangle something, you separate it from things that are twisted around it, or things that it is twisted or knotted around. 解開(纏繞物或結(jié))

She clawed at the bushes to disentangle herself. 她抓開灌木叢，讓自己脫身。