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You can picture relaxed as tension that has been let out — shoulders dropping, a held breath released. Nothing is being pulled tight: not the body, not the mood in a room, not the rules people are holding each other to.
可以想成「原本拉緊的東西鬆開了」：肩膀垮下來、憋著的一口氣吐出去。這個字底下都是同一個動作——把緊繃放掉。放掉的可以…更多收起
可以想成「原本拉緊的東西鬆開了」：肩膀垮下來、憋著的一口氣吐出去。這個字底下都是同一個動作——把緊繃放掉。放掉的可以是身體和心情裡的緊，可以是一個場合裡那股得端著的緊，也可以是規矩上的緊。所以 relaxed 從來不是「什麼都沒有」，而是「本來有一股拉力，現在鬆了」。原始詞典資料6 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。
relaxedadj/ɹɪˈlækst/
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obsoletemedicinephysiologysciencesMade slack or feeble; weak, soft.
- It was a very wet morning. I woke relaxed and melancholy as in the country, and walked about an hour under cover, in the middle of the town […].
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Made more lenient; less strict; lax.
- The relaxed rules were greatly tightened after the lawsuit.
- I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.
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Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely.
- He's a relaxed kind of guy, he never lets himself get upset.
- Students and faculty members lunch at the cafeteria and naturally communicate freely with one another in a relaxed and informal setting.
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsWithout physical tension; in a state of equilibrium.
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medicinephysiologysciencesOf a muscle: soft, not tensed.
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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。