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To open something up that was rolled or folded tightly — and to do it in one smooth spreading motion. Flags unfurl, sails unfurl, banners unfurl, a scroll unfurls. The picture is always the same: something wrapped around itself, then released, then wide and flat and visible. It works both ways in grammar. You can unfurl a thing ("they unfurled the banner"), or the thing can unfurl by itself ("the flag unfurled in the wind"). English also uses it for anything that opens in that slow, way — a leaf unfurls in spring, a cat unfurls itself from a ball, smoke unfurls from a chimney. And writers stretch it further, to things that gradually reveal themselves: a story unfurls, a plan unfurls, a landscape unfurls below the plane. This is a somewhat literary, ceremonial word. In everyday speech people say "open it up" or "roll it out." You will meet "unfurl" mostly in news reports, novels, and descriptions of flags at ceremonies.
展開、（旗、帆）張開、舒展開來
原始詞典資料4 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。
unfurlverb/ʌnˈfəːl/
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To unroll or release something that had been rolled up, typically a sail or a flag.
- They unfurled the flag at the start of the festival.
- BEHIND him lay the gray Azores, / Behind the Gates of Hercules; / Before him not the ghost of shores, / Before him only shoreless seas. // The good mate said: “Now must we pray, / For lo! the very stars are gone. / Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?” / “Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on!’” “My men grow mutinous day by day; / My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” / The stout mate thought of home; a spray / Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. // “What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, / If we sight naught but seas at dawn?” / “Why, you shall say at break of day, / ‘Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!’” They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, / Until at last the blanched mate said: / “Why, now not even God would know / Should I and all my men fall dead. // These very winds forget their way, / For God from these dread seas is gone. / Now speak, brave Admiral, speak and say”— / He said: “Sail on! sail on! and on!” They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: / “This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. / He curls his lip, he lies in wait, / With lifted teeth, as if to bite! // Brave Admiral, say but one good word: / What shall we do when hope is gone?” / The words leapt like a leaping sword: / “Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!” Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, / And peered through darkness. Ah, that night / Of all dark nights! And then a speck— / A light! A light! A light! A light! // It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! / It grew to be Time’s burst of dawn. / He gained a world; he gave that world / Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on!”
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To roll out or debut anything.
- When will we be unfurling the new feature?
- Befitting the gray-brown clothes, bagged eyes, and licorice hair of its figures, Memoir Of A Snail unfurls the spiraling tale of two orphans persevering on Australia’s fringes.
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To open up by unrolling.
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To turn out or unfold; to evolve; to progress.
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。