"These new methods of treatment are based on the idea of imperfection. We begin with that. I began with that last Tuesday. ." Sir Richmond, too, was sticking to his argument. "A man, and for that matter the world he lives in, is a tangle of accumulations. Your psychoanalyst starts, it seems to me, with a notion of stripping down to something fundamental. The ape before was a tangle of accumulations, just as we are. So it was with his forebears.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
The garden was a tangled mass of weeds. The graves in the little family burying-ground were unprotected, the fence was gone, and no boards marked the last two ragged mounds. Old Gabe had never told him. He, too, like Martha, was homeless, and the old miller had been kind to him, as the girl's kinspeople had been to her.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
In the centre was an ancient broken sun-dial, which was in these days in the midst of a sort of thicket, where a bold tangle of the finest red roses clambered, and, defying neglect, flaunted their rich colour in the sun.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"I did not know," she said, turning with a sudden movement from a side window, "that one might see the old rose garden from here. I would not have taken the room had I guessed it. It is too dreary a wilderness, with its tangle of briars and its broken sun-dial."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
It was a little figure more forlorn even than herself--a little figure which was not much more than a bundle of rags, from which small, bare, red muddy feet peeped out, only because the rags with which their owner was trying to cover them were not long enough. Above the rags appeared a shock head of tangled hair, and a dirty face with big, hollow, hungry eyes.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
He would see in a moment that--she knew. And he would see more than that! He would see that she was hating him. The hatred was only dawning, struggling up in her tangled heart. But it existed-- it was there. And he would see that it was there. She walked back till she reached the tunnel under the highroad. But she did not pass through it.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
He lived in the same apartment as a Tangled Fog of Pulsating Yearning in the shape of a woman.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》