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To unleash something is to let it loose after it has been held back or controlled — the image comes from taking a dog off its leash. Nowadays people almost always use it about things that are not literal dogs: you can unleash your creativity, unleash chaos, unleash an attack, or unleash your anger. The word always carries a feeling of power that was contained and is now suddenly free.
釋放、（力量、情緒等）引發
組成un- (the reverse of an action) + leash (a rope or strap used to control a dog).
同家族的字
- leashto unleash is literally to remove the leash, letting something go free
原始詞典資料3 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。
unleashverb/ʌnˈliʃ/
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To free from a leash, or as from a leash.
- He unleashed his dog in the park.
- Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
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To let go; to release.
- He unleashed his fury.
- It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.
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To precipitate; to bring about.
- Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession.
- People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?
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。