| 单词 | free |
| 释义 | free I. 1. a. < an edict setting the slave free > b. c. (1) < free citizens > < a free people > < the free world > (2) < a free country > < a free government > d. < a free city > < a free nation > e. f. < my young friend, who seems to have as free and erect a mind as any I have ever met — R.W.Emerson > < endowed with a mind that was extraordinarily subtle, free, and fertile in general ideas — M.R.Cohen > 2. a. (1) < a free agent > (2) < free actions > < free choices > (3) b. < a free offer > < gave his free consent > 3. obsolete a. b. 4. a. (1) < free from pain > < free from disease > < a duty-free import > < free from impurities > < the only spot where he was free from hay fever — S.H.Holbrook > : rid < she was glad to be free of old Matthew — Ellen Glasgow > (2) < interested in keeping local government free from profit — W.E.Jackson > (3) < at this stage the herring is free from invertebrate predators — W.H.Dowdeswell > b. < the prisoner was now free > < cattle left free to range > < upon opening the skull a considerable amount of free blood is noted — H.G.Armstrong > c. d. (1) (2) < the refineries had an interest in free sugar — F.L.Paxson > e. (1) (2) < no reasonable ground for interfering with … the right of free contract by determining the hours of labor — R.F.Peckham > < the employee was free to agree to working conditions injurious to his health > (3) of foreign exchange f. (1) < the foreman of a trail herd allowed his cowhands a free evening when they camped for the night near a large town — American Guide Series: Nevada > (2) < she would, like most girls, like a year or two free before she entered upon motherhood — Ruth Park > < thought that the life of a bachelor would be freer than that of a married man > g. < population in 1940 was only 18,000 and the current estimate is 58,000 with free talk of 100,000 by 1960 — Newsweek > < a scherzo is a free term for something rather humorous and sprightly that goes at a good clip — Ross Parmenter > h. < whether within or outside the plant, on free or on paid time — Dun's Review > 5. a. (1) < raced the car along the free and open highway > < the boat had free passage along the channel > < a considerable amount of free floor space in addition to the space required for equipment — H.G.Armstrong > < the side with the freest access to its resources should be the ultimate victor — Michael Scully > (2) < tried to telephone five times before he got a free circuit > < lying on her bed waiting for the bathroom to be free — Charles Ingle > < a free position in a molecule or crystal > b. < the movement of the motor shaft seemed free enough > < found his hands free of the chains > < the runner fell into a free easy jog > < wheeled the cylinders to make certain they were turning free and fast — S.H.Holbrook > < flying from out of the jungle with a great free flapping of wings — Jack McLaren > c. < free to tell the truth as he sees it > < any member is free to raise any topic — London Calling > < she was free … to go where she liked and do what she liked … had no responsibilities, no cares — Arnold Bennett > d. < free elections > e. f. (1) < one end of the rope was left free and trailed in the water behind the boat > < rising like a toy balloon that had slipped free of a child's fingers — Horace Sutton > (2) < the cantilever construction allowed the free end of the beam to project over 15 feet > (3) < in twelve-tone music, no note is wholly free for it must hold its place in the series — J.L.Stewart > (4) of a particle or mass in physics g. of a foot or hand < while he was skating on one foot he held the free foot up in front of him > < held the chair tilted with one hand and pointed under it with his free hand > h. of a missile i. gymnastics 6. obsolete 7. a. < pretty free with his money > < the evidence of high living standards and free spending in New York — Dixon Wecter > b. c. d. < most of these women of distinction were courtesans, free in spirit, manners, and finances — H.M.Parshley > e. archaic f. < the professor had made free use of cracks and weather marks on the stone, combining them with the hieroglyphics to make the translation come out right — Martin Gardner > g. < a young man who had been much too free with the ladies of the town — Harvey Graham > h. < indulging in inexcusably free talk before the ladies > < resting her chin on her clasped hands, her elbows on the table, in an attitude which the older women thought shockingly free — Edith Wharton > i. chiefly Britain, of a graft stock 8. 9. a. < a free school > b. < free admission > < a free ticket to a circus > c. < the dance hall was largely filled with free customers > 10. 11. a. < it is free for him to think so > b. < made his friends free of his land and possessions > < made their children free of every novel in the house — Times. Literary Supplement > < he was free of the house, and might be found at any moment, in the hall or patio, or sitting at ease in the study — R.P.Warren > 12. obsolete 13. a. < a free ore > < a free column > < electrons … quite a number of them are free, that is, they are not attached to any particular atom — Magic of Communication > b. < having flowers with free whorls > < a vine with free stipules > c. (1) < turkeys require free water for drinking purposes — R.E.Trippensee > < the slower flowing watercourses retain water, either free or in sand, all the year round — Geographical Journal > (2) < free oxygen > < free acids > — opposed to bound d. < the free zooids of some bryozoans > e. of a vowel f. of accent in speech < accent in English is free > g. of a linguistic form < the word hats is a free form > — opposed to bound 14. a. < a free version of a Greek play > < a free rendering of a piano concerto > : not literal or exact < a free translation > b. < a free use of the dance steps he had learned > < was considered her superior at free skating — Current Biography > < his subjects were chiefly historical and marine, done in free and incisive lines — American Guide Series: Oregon > < free rhythms > < the stone-cut inscriptions of today which employ freer forms — F.W.Goudy > — see free verse c. < a church that belongs to the free tradition > < whether that church is established or free > 15. 16. a. < free labor > < if we do not take such action, the free Pacific will be lost — Time > b. < the territory of Iowa was shortly to be admitted to the Union as a free state — Marjory S. Douglas > 17. a. < a free competition > < that most pleasurable of Anglo-Saxon pastimes, a free fight — Winston Churchill > b. of firearms < a free rifle > < a free pistol > 18. a. < footloose and fancy-free > < a germ-free atmosphere > < free of imperfections > < a face free of makeup > < a statement free of any insulting implication > < a night free from terrors > b. < the house was set up to be free of the prison confines > 19. of wool 20. a. of paper pulp b. of a sheet of paper 21. a. of a bid in bridge b. of a double in bridge Synonyms: < the United States became a free country after the American Revolution > < for liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others, which cannot be where there is no law — John Locke > < freedom makes a man to choose what he likes; that is, makes him free — A.T.Quiller-Couch > independent may describe that which stands alone without relation or connection < words have a meaning independent of the pattern in which they are arranged — Aldous Huxley > Applied to nations, it indicates lack of connection with any state or government having power to rule or control < the colony became a dominion and then, severing all ties with the motherland, became independent > Applied to persons it indicates a disposition to stand alone and apart with self-reliance and without binding attachment or applies to one who has taken such a stand or stands as if in such a way < in America it seems that almost one third of the voters classify themselves as independent and a large number of others do not hesitate to cross party lines to vote for candidates of the other party — E.S.Griffith > sovereign implies both absence of a superior power over the thing described and unquestioned supremacy within its own sphere < Puerto Rico … is a self-governing commonwealth under the American flag. It is sovereign, independent, and equal, but has of its own free choice, and for sound and practical reasons, entrusted its foreign and defense policy to the government in Washington — J.C.Harsch > < the alternative purpose proposed by the Scottish Nationalists — namely, the creation of a sovereign Scottish nation — Scotsman > autonomous may indicate an independence of a government in local matters but a degree of control over that government in others < autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations — Statute of Westminster > < ANDORRA. An autonomous state on the south slope of the eastern Pyrenees, nominally under the joint sovereignty of France and the Spanish bishop of Urgel — Americana Annual > autarchic and its variants now stress economic self-sufficiency more than political independence < all of the countries of the Soviet bloc operate an autarchical type of economy. Striving for self-sufficiency, they buy only the barest minimum of goods from abroad — Clifton Daniel > • - for free - free in and out - with a free hand II. 1. a. < free the slaves > < free her husband to marry again > b. < freed him of his chains > < free a party of an obnoxious bore > < an Irish brogue from which she later found it difficult to free herself — Current Biography > < human sensibility must be freed from the dust of erudition and the weight of tradition — Clive Bell > < free another large portion of her import trade from quantitative restrictions — H.F.Tysser > c. < free a stuck door by throwing his weight against it > < freed rayon cloth distribution from control — Times Review of Industry > d. < free a child from danger > < good health can free the body from infection > e. < free a fishline from overhead branches > < free a passage of refuse and debris > < the orange, peeled, carefully freed of every shred of white rind — Marcia Davenport > f. < flower scents, that only nighttime frees — Amy Lowell > 2. obsolete Synonyms: < freed from debt > < speculation could not free itself from the moving principles of Christian theology — H.O.Taylor > < the more progressive lawyers are trying to free their own writing from archaic terminology — Milton Hall > < freed from the tyranny of the classroom — Allen Johnson > release may suggest more forcefully than free the action of unloosing from a confined or constrained situation without, however, necessarily implying the permanent liberation that free usually does < state institutions released on parole or some other form of conditional release a total of 34,032 prisoners — R.S.Banay > < it gave him the feeling that she had reclaimed, reappropriated him. No! That she had never for a moment released him — S.H.Adams > < only by indulging a deep impulse towards sermonizing could he release those other impulses which made him the great writer he was — C.H.Sykes > liberate may suggest the process or act of freeing or disengaging from bondage, restraint, or constriction, usually with resulting liberty < to liberate a certain group of individuals, those concerned in new forms of industry, commerce, and finance, from shackles inherited from feudalism — John Dewey > < to liberate Victorian women from the confining clothes of the period — Lois Long > < the central idea of Goethe's drama is that Orestes can be reconciled with fate and liberated from the furies of his conscience — W.A.Kaufmann > emancipate may refer to the formal process of setting free after slavery; it may refer to a freeing or becoming free from previous restraints or shackles and attaining to independence of action < the descendants of such slaves, when they shall be emancipated, or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth — R.B.Taney > < a Greek education which emancipated him from the superstitions of his countrymen — J.G.Frazer > < the vital necessity of education and its power to emancipate the working classes, mentally, socially, and politically — Alfred Plummer > manumit may refer to the formal conferring of freedman status on slave or serf, usually by his owner < it appears from the report, that Darnall was born in Maryland, and was the son of a white man by one of his slaves, and his father executed certain instruments to manumit him — R.B.Taney > < a master may manumit his slave in the church, or outside of it, before a judge or other person, by testament, or by letter; but he must do this in person — Political Science Quarterly > affranchise and the more common enfranchise imply freeing from subjection or other condition marked by lack of personal or political liberty, the latter usually implying admission to full political rights < every slave, after fifteen years, should be affranchised — W.S.Landor > < American Negroes emancipated by the proclamation of President Lincoln in 1863 but not enfranchised until the Fifteenth Amendment went into effect in 1870 > deliver still occasionally shows evidence that it is etymologically a cognate of liberate < from the fury of the Norsemen, Good Lord deliver us > < a rescue party was in time to deliver him with his head still on his shoulders — A.M.Young > Similarly, discharge in some uses may indicate release from confinement, restraint, or constriction < discharge a prisoner > < an honorably discharged veteran > < no person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor — U.S. Constitution > III. 1. < the high overtone of the saw penetrates every corner of the mill, singing when it runs free — American Guide Series: Arkansas > < a free moving joint > 2. < children admitted free > < people have traditionally been able to walk into museums free — Huntington Hartford > 3. < a yacht sailing free > |
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