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Letting out what was held in. Something — a person, a fluid, a charge, an obligation — was being kept or carried, and now it is released and allowed to go. Hold onto that image of a load being let go: a patient let out of hospital, gas let out into the air, a debt let off your shoulders, electricity let out of a battery — all the same release.
可以想成把原本「裝著、扛著」的東西放出去。某個東西——一個人、一股液體、一份電、一項義務——本來被留住或被擔著，現在…更多收起
可以想成把原本「裝著、扛著」的東西放出去。某個東西——一個人、一股液體、一份電、一項義務——本來被留住或被擔著，現在被釋放、讓它走。核心畫面比較像「卸下一個負荷」：病人被放出醫院、氣體被放進空氣裡、債務從肩上被卸掉、電從電池裡放出來——全都是同一個「放出去」。原始詞典資料30 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dischargeverb/dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/
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To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. (1965, Amendment XXV)
- O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.
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To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- But in deede, the ſecret cauſe that brought Ageſilaus to conſent vnto this practiſe, was the greatnes of his dette which he ought, of the which he hoped to be diſcharged by chaunging of the ſtate and common wealth.
- For if One Man's Faults could Discharge Another Man of his Duty,there would be no longer any Place left for the Common Offices of Society.
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To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- If he had / The present money to discharge the Jew.
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To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- The order for Daly's attendance was discharged.
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To expel or let go.
- Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.
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To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- They do discharge their shot of courtesy.
- Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityTo release (an accumulated charge).
- GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service.
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To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- Discharge the common sort / With pay and thanks.
- Grindal […] was discharged the government of his see.
另外 11 個記錄的用法
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medicinesciencesTo relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsTo relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
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To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- to discharge a prisoner
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To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- discharge his pieces
- I ran forward, discharging my pistol into the creature's body in an effort to force it to relinquish its prey; but I might as profitably have shot at the sun.
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human-scienceslogicmathematicsTo release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
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To unload a ship or another means of transport.
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To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- to discharge a cargo
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To give forth; to emit or send out.
- A pipe discharges water.
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To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- He discharged a horrible oath.
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businessmanufacturingtextilesTo bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background
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obsoleteTo prohibit; to forbid.
- That Richard Stevenson, Robert Calcott, and Richard Tyldesley, be discharged from farther restraint, giving good security to appear at this Board whensoever summoned, and not depart this city until full satisfaction be given
dischargenoun/dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/
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medicinesciencesThe act of expelling or letting go.
- care transition after discharge
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governmentmilitarypoliticsThe act of expelling or letting go.
- career transition after discharge
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The material thus released.
- Near-synonyms: effluent, effluence (sometimes synonymous)
- a mucopurulent vaginal discharge
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The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- negligent discharge
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The process of removing the load borne by something.
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The process of flowing out.
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medicinesciencesThe process of flowing out.
- Near-synonyms: effluent, effluence (sometimes synonymous)
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityThe act of releasing an accumulated charge.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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geographyhydrologynatural-sciencesThe volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
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The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge.
- She [the Queen] was assisted in the discharge of her solemn functions by fourteen sacred women, one for each of the altars of Dionysus.
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lawRelease from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
- After having granted discharge from liability, the general meeting of shareholders may not demand for the company compensation for matters which it had knowledge of when granting discharge.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。