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An imbroglio is a messy, , or confusing situation, especially in or public life, where people are tangled up and nobody looks good. It is not a small mix-up at the shop. It is the kind of tangle that gets into the news: secret deals, public fights, stories that contradict each other. The word feels literary and a bit . News writers and people who like fancy words use it; most everyday speakers would just say a mess, a scandal, or a tangle. Though actually, the Italian idea behind it is a knot you cannot easily undo — not just “a problem,” but a knot of problems all stuck together.
糾葛；難堪的混亂局面（尤指政治、公眾事件）
組成Borrowed from Italian imbroglio, a tangle or muddle: im- (in) + broglio (confusion, intrigue). Related to French embrouiller, “to mix up,” and a doublet of English embroil.
同家族的字
- embroila doublet: same tangle-family, now the English verb “to drag someone into a mess”
原始詞典資料1 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。
imbroglionoun/ɪmˈbɹəʊljəʊ/
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A complicated situation; an entanglement.
- Into the drawers and china pry, / Papers and books, a huge imbroglio! / Under a tea-cup he might lie, / Or creased, like dogs-ears, in a folio.
- Your trip here will never quite go as planned. […] There may be strikes, mixed-up reservations, maddening imbrogli of all sorts. But they will be charming imbrogli because the Italian people are charming, down to the whimsical tone of their language.
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。