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If someone or something is freewheeling, they are not tightly following rules, and they are not worrying much about what will happen later. The picture comes from a bicycle rolling downhill with no pedaling: you are moving, but you are not working every detail. English uses it about people, trips, talks, and companies. It can sound — relaxed, open, creative — or a little warning — careless, not serious — depending on who is speaking. It is informal. Though actually, you do not need to be on a bike at all; the word has mostly left the machine and now describes an attitude.
隨興的、不受拘束的
原始詞典資料2 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。
freewheelingadj/ˈfɹiːˌ(h)wiːlɪŋ/
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Unbounded by rules or conventions; unrestrained.
- We are confident that such a provision will be drafted such that it will not allow the President to vitiate the intent of the bill through "freewheeling" negotiations.
- To begin with, the advisory panel did not operate in the freewheeling fashion that the plaintiff's brief seems to suggest. There was not a disregard by SIDG [Subsystems Integration Design Group] of the contractual implications of the action that it was generating.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。