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词组 web
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web
noun a television network US, 1990
idiomweba tangled webused about a situation which is very complicated, especially because lots of different people or organizations want different things from it:The issue of sex education had inevitably been caught up in a tangled web of local education politics.The unlikely heroine of the novel finds herself in a tangled web of intrigue when she picks up the wrong bag at the airport.
Note This idiom comes from a line in Sir Walter Scott's poem, Marmion: O what a tangled web we weave,/ When first we practise to deceive.

tangled web

A convoluted situation usually caused by some form of deception. The investigation revealed a tangled web of fraud among the members of the political party.

a tangled web

A tangled web is a situation that is very confused and difficult to understand. This is only one of a series of troubling questions that are emerging from the tangled web of evidence connected to the case. It is sometimes difficult to cut through the tangled web of government information in order to work out the benefits you can claim.

a tangled web

a complex, difficult, and confusing situation or thing.
This phrase comes from Sir Walter Scott 's epic poem Marmion ( 1808 ); ‘O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!’
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