| 单词 | unload |
| 释义 | unload (once / 1196 pages) v To unload is to remove cargo from a vehicle or shipping carton. Unload can also mean to discharge or get rid of something, or to get something off your chest. A clothing store might unload (remove) a hundred cartons from the delivery truck, and then unload (unpack) shirts and pants from the cartons. If a carton of clothes is imperfect, the store might send them back or unload (dispossess themselves of) them by selling them cheaply to a factory-seconds outlet. Then the store manager, depending on her mood, might unload on (give a tongue-lashing to) the manufacturer for shipping shoddy products. WORD FAMILYunload: unloaded, unloading, unloads+/load: loaded, loader, loading, loads, overload, reload, superload, unload/loader: loaders, self-loader/loading: loadings, self-loading/overload: overloaded, overloading, overloads/reload: reloaded, reloading, reloads/unloading: unloadings USAGE EXAMPLESThe area that was targeted on Saturday is packed with wholesale markets and usually teeming with daily labourers unloading vans and wheeling carts around. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Simply recognizing when a seller is desperate to unload, at almost any price. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) In one case, officers forced the company to buy fructose it didn’t need because they wanted to unload merchandise he suspected was ill-gotten. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1v leave or unload unload the cargo Syn|Hypo|Hyper discharge, drop, drop off, put down, set down wharf discharge at a wharf air-dropdrop (an object) from the air; unload from a plane or helicopter deliver bring to a destination, make a delivery 2v take the load off (a container or vehicle) unload the truck Syn|Hyper offload, unlade empty remove |
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