- entanglement (n.)
[entanglement 词源字典]
- 1630s, "that which entangles," from entangle + -ment. From 1680s as "act of entangling." Foreign entanglements does not appear as such in Washington's Farewell Address (1796), though he warns against them. The phrase is found in William Coxe's 1798 memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole.[entanglement etymology, entanglement origin, 英语词源]