Emancipation is the act of giving people legal or political rights they did not have, or the state of having those rights at last.

Emancipation解放 is the act of giving people legal or political rights they did not have是指給人們原本沒有的法律或政治權利這個舉動，or the state of having those rights at last或是終於擁有這些權利的狀態。

In the United States, school history ties the word tightly to the ending of slavery — Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is the example almost everyone meets. In Britain in the nineteenth century, Catholic emancipation meant easing laws that had kept Catholics out of full public life.

In the United States在美國，school history ties the word tightly to the ending of slavery學校歷史課把這個字緊緊地和廢除奴隸制綁在一起——Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is the example almost everyone meets林肯的《解放宣言》就是幾乎每個人都會學到的例子。In Britain in the nineteenth century在十九世紀的英國，Catholic emancipation meant「天主教徒解放」指的是 easing laws that had kept Catholics out of full public life放寬那些原本讓天主教徒無法完整參與公共生活的法律。

So the word is wider than slavery, even if that is the first story in many textbooks. It is a formal historical and political noun, not a word for finishing a chore or leaving a noisy room.

So the word is wider than slavery所以這個字的意思比奴隸制還要廣，even if that is the first story in many textbooks就算很多課本裡第一個講的故事是它。It is a formal historical and political noun它是一個正式的歷史、政治名詞，not a word for finishing a chore不是用來說「做完一件家事」，or leaving a noisy room或「離開一個吵鬧的房間」的字。

Though actually, opinion writers sometimes stretch it to freedom from an old idea, but news and teaching still mostly keep it for real legal change.

Though actually不過其實，opinion writers sometimes stretch it to freedom from an old idea評論作者有時候會把這個字延伸用來說「從舊觀念中解脫」，but news and teaching still mostly keep it for real legal change但新聞和教學大多還是把它留給真正的法律變革。