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Liberator People Free Sets Held 英 Lɪbəreɪtə(R)] 美 Lɪbəreɪtə(R

英语单词 liberator
英美音标 英 ['lɪbəreɪtə(r)] 美 ['lɪbəreɪtə(r)]
中文释义 n.解放者;释放者
英语例句 (1) A quality education is the ultimate liberator.
(2) He said Mr. Mugabe has turned his back on the people of Zimbabwe and on Africa and that he has sullied his legacy as Zimbabwe's liberator from colonialism.
中文例句 (1) 素质教育是终极解放者。
(2) 他说,穆加贝背弃了非洲和津巴布韦人民,也玷污了他作为反抗殖民主义的津巴布韦解放者的荣誉。
vocabulary简明 A liberator is someone who sets people free from captivity. Abolitionists were liberators who fought to free African-American slaves from bondage in the years before the Civil War.
vocabulary扩展 Both liberator and liberty derive from the Latin liberare meaning "to set free." A liberator is someone who provides liberty, or freedom, to people held captive or repressed. At the end of the Holocaust, allied forces entered Germany and Poland, acting as liberators for millions of Jews held in concentration camps during World War II.
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]解放者;拯救者 A liberator is someone who sets people free from a system, situation, or set of ideas that restricts them in some way.
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  • They came as liberators and now they're occupiers.

    他们来的时候是解放者,现在却成了占领者。

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