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To embroil someone is to pull them into a messy, difficult situation — often an argument, a fight, a court case, or a political trouble they did not ask for. You can embroil a person, a country, or a company. The feeling is: now they are tangled in it, and getting out will be hard. You will hear this more in newspapers than at the dinner table: “the minister became embroiled in a scandal.” In everyday talk people more often say “got mixed up in” or “got dragged into.” Though actually, English almost always uses it in a set shape: become/get embroiled in something. A plain “they embroiled him” is possible, but “he became embroiled in…” is the line you will keep meeting. It is a fairly formal word, and it is about trouble, not about cooking, even though it looks a little like broil. The French source means “to tangle” or “to mix up,” from a picture of stirring things into a stew.
捲入（糾紛、醜聞、麻煩）
組成From French embrouiller, “to entangle”: em- (“in”) + brouiller (“to mix up, confuse”). The mix-up piece goes back through old words for broth — a stew of things stirred together.
同家族的字
- embroilmentthe noun: the messy situation you have been pulled into
- imbrogliofrom the same “entangle” family: a complicated mess
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
embroilverb詞源 1/ɪmˈbɹɔɪl/
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To bring (something) into a state of confusion or uproar; to complicate, to confuse, to jumble.
- Rumor next and Chance, / And Tumult and Confuſion all imbroild, / And Diſcord with a thouſand various mouths.
- Your Enemies had ſo embroyl'd the management of your Office, that they look'd on your Advancement as the Inſtrument of your Ruine.
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To cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention.
- Avoid him. He will embroil you in his fights.
- Then vvhen ſhe found her Venom ſpread ſo far, / The Royal Houſe embroil'd in Civil VVar: / Rais'd on her dusky VVings ſhe cleaves the Skies, / And ſeeks the Palace vvhere young Turnus lies.
embroilnoun詞源 1/ɪmˈbɹɔɪl/
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obsoleteA state of confusion or uproar; a commotion, a disturbance; also, a quarrel.
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obsoleteA state of anxiety or disturbance of the mind.
embroilverb詞源 2/ɪmˈbɹɔɪl/
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obsoleterareTo set (something) on fire; to burn (something).
- Indeed if vve vvill be building our Babels, and thus aſſault Omnipotence, 'tis but juſt vve ſhould have our language confounded, and that that knovvledge for vvhich vve boldly attempt to rifle Gods cabinet, ſhould like the Coal from the Altar, ſerve only to embroil and conſume the ſacrilegious invaders.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。