喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture 'free' as nothing holding you back — no chain, no cage, no rope. From that unheld state grow many branches: free of cost (nobody charges you), free of plans (nothing booked on your time), free of a substance (nothing mixed in), and free to act (let loose to move).

可以想成 free 的核心畫面比較像「沒有東西拽住你」——沒有鎖鏈、沒有牢籠、沒有繩子綁著。從這個「無物牽絆」的狀態…更多收起可以想成 free 的核心畫面比較像「沒有東西拽住你」——沒有鎖鏈、沒有牢籠、沒有繩子綁著。從這個「無物牽絆」的狀態長出好幾條支線：不收你錢（沒有費用拽住）、時間沒被排滿（沒有安排綁住）、沒摻別的東西（沒有雜質黏著）、可以放手去動（鬆開讓它跑）。

原始詞典資料41 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。

Freename/fɹiː/

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    An unincorporated community in Parish Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.

freeadj詞源 1/fɹiː/

  • 1

    Unconstrained.

    • He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted.
    • Quickly, spirit! / Thou shalt ere long be free.
  • 2

    Unconstrained.

    • Free Blacks
    • a free man
  • 3

    Unconstrained.

    • He's very free with his money.
  • 4

    obsoleteUnconstrained.

    • My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
  • 5

    Unconstrained.

    • free time
  • 6

    Unconstrained.

    • a free school
    • Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free / For me as for you?
  • 7

    countrylocationregionUnconstrained.

    • the Free World
    • This is a free country.
  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsUnconstrained.

    • OpenOffice is free software.
另外 21 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    computingengineeringmathematicsUnconstrained.

  • 10

    Obtainable without any payment.

    • The government provides free health care.
    • It's free real estate.
  • 11

    Obtainable without any payment.

    • Buy a TV to get a free DVD player!
  • 12

    algebracategory-theorycomputingUnconstrained.

  • 13

    algebracategory-theorycomputingUnconstrained.

  • 14

    algebragroup-theorymathematicsUnconstrained.

    • The fundamental group of the figure eight is free of rank 2.
  • 15

    algebramathematicssciencesUnconstrained.

  • 16

    human-scienceslogicmathematicsUnconstrained.

    • z is the free variable in #92;forallx#92;existsy#58;xy#61;z.
  • 17

    computingengineeringmathematicsUnconstrained.

  • 18

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesUnconstrained.

  • 19

    Unconstrained.

    • the drain was free
  • 20

    Unconstrained.

    • a free radical
    • The door finally shook free of its hinges.
  • 21

    Unconstrained.

    • You can sit on this chair; it's free.
  • 22

    biologybotanymycologyUnconstrained.

    • In this group of mushrooms, the gills are free.
    • Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute[…]
  • 23

    governmentmilitarypoliticsUnconstrained.

  • 24

    Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.

    • We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat.  I would like to live free from care in the mountains.
    • princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties
  • 25

    datedReady; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.

    • a free horse
  • 26

    datedInvested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.

    • He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, / Free of his farm.
  • 27

    obsoletelawCertain or honourable; the opposite of base.

    • free service;  free socage
  • 28

    lawPrivileged or individual; proprietary.

    • a free fishery;  a free warren
  • 29

    slanghobbieslifestylemotor-racingHaving oversteer.

freeadv詞源 1/fɹiː/

  • 1

    Without needing to pay.

    • I got this bike free.
    • Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
  • 2

    obsoleteFreely; willingly.

    • I as free forgive you / As I would be forgiven.

freeverb詞源 2/fɹiː/

  • 1

    To make free; set at liberty; release.

    • Pro.[…]Spirit, fine ſpirit, Ile free thee / Within two dayes for this.
    • Liberia was founded in 1822 by the American Colonization Society whose goal was to resettle freed slaves in Africa.
  • 2

    To rid of something that confines or oppresses.

    • Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil."
  • 3

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.

    • There is no way to access that original area of memory, nor is there any way to free it before the program ends.

freenoun詞源 3/fɹiː/

  • 1

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesA free transfer.

    • Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the summer, drilled a 22-yard beauty to open the scoring.
  • 2

    The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.

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