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乱糟糟的一团(思想、事件)
If you refer to a thicket of ideas or events, you mean that there a lot of them together, and often that they are confusing or difficult to identify.
例句
The novel is a thicket of literary references...
这本小说纯粹是由一堆文学参考书胡乱拼凑而成。
To try to open a foreign-owned business is to enter a thicket of regulations from which few emerge.
要开一家外资企业就要钻条条框框，没几个出来的。