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单词 take liberties
释义

take liberties

1Behave in an unduly familiar or easy manner towards someone or something: you’ve taken too many liberties with me...
  • I got on well with my teammates, but I think that would have been taking liberties towards the club.
  • Over time, the children of family members may take liberties that when left unchecked, become real problems.
  • Still, the advertisements are part of a growing strain of Web marketing that takes liberties with requested Web pages, browsers and e-mail in-boxes, making it harder for people to ignore ads.

Synonyms

act with overfamiliarity, act with familiarity, show disrespect, act with impropriety, act indecorously, be impudent, commit a breach of etiquette, act with boldness, act with impertinence, show insolence, show impudence, show presumptuousness, show presumption, show forwardness, show audacity, be unrestrained;
take advantage of, exploit
2Treat something freely, without strict faithfulness to the facts or to an original: the scriptwriter has taken few liberties with the original narrative...
  • Doing so is disingenuous, and takes liberties with the facts and the policy of this matter.
  • This is one of the problems of an adaptation, where the writer must decide between a faithful, textually based adaptation and one that takes liberties in order to make it a better film.
  • For Parker, the traditionalists who accuse him of taking liberties are one of the targets.
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