喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture freedom as a space with no walls and no hand on your shoulder: nothing is holding you back, so you can move and choose by yourself. From that one open space everything else grows — the right to act, being let out of a closed place, being clear of something that troubles you, the chance to pick what you want.

可以想成一片沒有牆、也沒有人按住你肩膀的空間：沒有東西卡住你，所以你能自己走動、自己決定。其他所有用法都從這片「沒有…更多收起可以想成一片沒有牆、也沒有人按住你肩膀的空間：沒有東西卡住你，所以你能自己走動、自己決定。其他所有用法都從這片「沒有阻擋」的空間長出來——做事的權利、從關押的地方被放出來、不再被某件事困擾、能自己挑想要的東西。

From the picture

脫離束縛、不再被困住

前面講的是「擁有」這片開放空間；這一組講的是「重新得到」它——本來被牆關著或被某件事壓著，現在那道牆或那份壓力拿掉了，你又回到能自由動的狀態。

release from confinement · noun · B2

The state of being free because you are no longer kept in a closed place.

獲釋／重獲自由

特定的法律或榮譽用法

這兩個是把「自由」這個字釘在特定制度上的專門用法：一個是法律給你的某種權利，一個是城市頒的榮銜。它們仍扣著核心——給你某種別人擋不住的進出或身分——只是場合很窄。

freedom of information · noun · B2

In some countries, people's legal right to see information the government keeps about people.

資訊公開（權）

Also in this word

not being controlled · noun · B2

The state of not being controlled or limited in what you do.

自由（狀態）

right to act freely · noun · B2

The right to do what you want without anyone stopping or controlling you.

自由

freedom to choose · noun · B2

Being allowed and able to choose for yourself what you want or do.

選擇的自由

原始詞典資料26 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。

Freedomname

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    • The people in Freedom include a range of professionals from doctors to real estate agents. Still, the group needs to build roads and establish running water and electricity before it can start building homes.
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    A barangay of Cabanglasan, Bukidnon, Philippines.

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    Former name of the International Space Station.

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    A surname.

freedomnoun/ˈfɹiːdəm/

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    The state of being free.

    • Having recently been released from prison, he didn't know what to do with his newfound freedom.
    • Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.
  • 2

    The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.

    • Freedom of speech is a basic democratic value.
    • People in our city enjoy many freedoms.
  • 3

    The right or privilege of unrestricted use or access

    • Freedom of a city
    • Yet the wisest princes, who adopted the maxims of Augustus, guarded with the strictest care the dignity of the Roman name, and diffused the freedom of the city with a prudent liberality.
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    Frankness; openness; unreservedness.

    • I doubt not, that you will take amiss my freedom; but as you have deserved it from me, I shall be less and less concerned on that score, as I see you are more and more intent to show your wit at the expense of justice and compassion.
  • 5

    Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.

    • "A first love is not easily extinguished, Mr. Allanson," said she. "You may guess from my appearance, that I have been fortunate in life; but, for all that, my first love for you has continued the same, unaltered and unchanged, and you must forgive the little freedoms I used to-day to try your affections, and the effects my appearance would have on you."

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。