| 单词 | free |
|---|---|
| 音标 | 英[fri:] 美[fri] |
| 解释 | adj.自由的;免费的;免税的;空闲的;adv.免费地;自由地,无拘束地;一帆风顺地;vt.免除;释放;使自由;解救; |
| 例句 | ADJ 免费的 If something is free, you can have it or use it without paying for it. 例:The seminars are free, with lunch provided.研讨会不收会务费,而且还提供午餐。 例:...a free brochure with details of gift vouchers.内有礼券详情的免费宣传册 ADJ-GRADED 自由的;不受约束的;没有限制的 Someone or something that is free is not restricted, controlled, or limited, for example by rules, customs, or other people. 例:The government will be free to pursue its economic policies...政府将可不受限制地实行其经济政策。 例:The elections were free and fair...选举是自由公正的。 VERB 使摆脱;使去掉 If you free someone of something that is unpleasant or restricting, you remove it from them. 例:It will free us of a whole lot of debt...它会使我们摆脱巨额债务。 例:The 30-year-old star is trying to free himself from his recording contract.这位30 岁的明星正试图从他的唱片合约中脱身。 ADJ (人身)自由的;不受监禁(或奴役)的 Someone who is free is no longer a prisoner or a slave. 例:He walked from the court house a free man...他以自由之身走出了法院。 例:More than ninety prisoners have been set free so far under a government amnesty.目前已有 90 多名犯人因为一项政府特赦获得自由。 VERB 使人身自由;解放;释放 To free a prisoner or a slave means to let them go or release them from prison. 例:Israel is set to free more Lebanese prisoners...以色列准备释放更多的黎巴嫩犯人。 例:The act had a specific intent, to protect freed slaves from white mobs.这项法案有明确的目的,即保护被解放的奴隶免受白人暴民的伤害。 ADJ 无…的;摆脱了…的 If someone or something is free of or free from an unpleasant thing, they do not have it or they are not affected by it. 例:...a future far more free of fear...远远摆脱恐惧的未来 例:She retains her slim figure and is free of wrinkles...她保持着苗条的身材,脸上也没有皱纹。 ADJ 免(税)的 A sum of money or type of goods that is free of tax or duty is one that you do not have to pay tax on. VERB 使解脱出来;使空出来 To free someone or something means to make them available for a task or function that they were previously not available for. 例:Toolbelts free both hands and lessen the risk of dropping hammers...工具腰带解放了双手,还减少了锤子掉落的风险。 例:His deal with Disney will run out shortly, freeing him to pursue his own project...他和迪斯尼的协议很快就要到期,这样他就可以腾出身来发展自己的项目了。 ADJ 空闲的;有空的;不上班的;不在忙的 If you have a free period of time or are free at a particular time, you are not working or occupied then. 例:She spent her free time shopping...她空闲的时候就去购物。 例:I used to write during my free periods at school...过去我经常在课余时间写作。 ADJ 不在用的;无人使用的;未被占用的 If something such as a table or seat is free, it is not being used or occupied by anyone, or is not reserved for anyone to use. 例:There was only one seat free on the train...列车上只剩下一个空座。 例:They took the only free table, which was just inside the door.他们在刚进门处的唯一一张空桌子边坐下。 ADJ 松开的;脱开的;未缚住的;未固定的 If you get something free or if it gets free, it is no longer trapped by anything or attached to anything. 例:The severe conditions hampered attempts to pull the vessel free of the rig...恶劣的天气情况使得把那艘船拉离钻塔的努力很难奏效。 例:He pulled his arm free, and strode for the door...他抽出胳膊,大步朝门走去。 VERB 松开;解开;使不再缚住(或固定) If you free someone or something, you remove them from the place in which they have been trapped or become fixed. 例:It took firemen two hours to cut through the drive belt to free him...消防员花了两个小时才把传动带切断,把他救了出来。 例:He managed to free one hand to ward off a punch.他设法挣脱出一只手来挡住了一拳。 ADJ (手或胳膊)空着的,闲着的 When someone is using one hand or arm to hold or move something, their other hand or arm is referred to as their free one. 例:He snatched up the receiver and his free hand groped for the switch on the bedside lamp...他一只手抓起电话听筒,另一只手去摸床头灯的开关。 例:She checked her fall with her free arm.多亏了她还有一只手空着才没让自己倒下去。 ADJ-GRADED 慷慨的;大手大脚的;过分给予的 If you say that someone is free with something such as advice or money, you mean that they give a lot of it, sometimes when it is not wanted. 例:They weren't always so free with their advice...他们并不是一直都如此好为人师。 例:They would often be free with criticism, some of it unjustified.他们经常会大肆批评,而且其中有些并无道理。 PHRASE 请随意;不必拘谨 You say 'feel free' when you want to give someone permission to do something, in a very willing way. 例:Go right ahead. Feel free...开始吧。请便。 例:If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask me.如果有任何问题,请随意提问。 PHRASE 义务地;无偿地;免费地 If you do something or get something for free, you do it without being paid or get it without having to pay for it. 例:I wasn't expecting you to do it for free...我并没有指望你白干。 例:Why waste £50 when you could get it for free?能够免费得到为什么还要浪费50英镑呢? PHRASE (表达批评意见时用于强调)不管怎样 You say that you will express a critical opinion about something for free when you want to emphasize how strongly you feel about it. 例:I'll tell you one thing for free: I can't stand him.不管怎样我都要说:我受不了他。 PHRASAL VERB 开放,放开(市场、经济或体系) To free up a market, economy, or system means to make it operate with fewer restrictions and controls. 例:...policies for freeing up markets and extending competition.开放市场、扩大竞争的政策 |
| 变形 | third:frees~done:freed~est:freest~ing:freeing~er:freer~past:freed~ |
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