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单词 untrammeled
释义
untrammeled
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adj

Something that's untrammeled is completely free and unrestricted. If you live a truly untrammeled life, you feel free to follow your dreams.
As opposed to a lion in a zoo, a wild animal is untrammeled, or free to roam. You could also describe a dictator's power as untrammeled, in a much less positive sense — he is free to make any laws he wants, and to treat his subjects however he chooses. Untrammeled comes from trammel, or "restriction," which also refers to a particular kind of fishing net. The root is Late Latin, tremaculum, "net made of three layers."
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trammeled: untrammeled+/trammel: tramels, trammeled, trammeling, trammelled, trammelling, trammels/trammelled: untrammelled
USAGE EXAMPLES
Atop a wind-scoured peak, we look down a delightfully steep pitch of untrammeled snow falling away to the north.
Washington Post(Nov 10, 2016)
But there’s an untrammeled optimism in being against everything—which, for Greif, entails being for something better than what already exists.
Slate(Nov 08, 2016)
Coming almost directly from snowmelt on the Flat Tops and passing through largely untrammeled public land, it’s about as pure as you could ask for.
Washington Times(Nov 05, 2016)
adj not confined or limited
"the gift of a fresh eye and an untrammeled curiosity"- Russell Lord
"the untrammeled rush that the snows had shown in the first spring sun"- Farley Mowat
Syn
untrammelled
limitless, unlimited
having no limits in range or scope
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