核心畫面
You can picture opening a full suitcase and lifting things out one by one, until what was a single closed lump becomes many separate things you can see and handle. Packing pressed everything together and hid it; unpacking undoes that — it opens the container and lays the contents out.
可以想成打開一只塞滿的行李箱，把東西一件一件拿出來，原本那個關起來、看不見內容的一大塊，就變成攤在眼前、可以一件件看…更多收起
可以想成打開一只塞滿的行李箱，把東西一件一件拿出來，原本那個關起來、看不見內容的一大塊，就變成攤在眼前、可以一件件看清楚也拿得起來的許多東西。pack 是把東西壓在一起、藏進去；unpack 就是把這個動作倒過來——打開它，讓裡面的東西一件件現身。原始詞典資料5 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。
unpackverb/ʌnˈpæk/
- 1
To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
- They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner.
- 2
To empty containers that had been packed.
- They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
- 3
To analyze a concept or a text; to explain.
- There may be another argument here, if we had time to unpack it, about modernism and the rise of the middle classes.
- Yet few Americans — including the president — understand how global trade works, both how it can help our economy and how some can be left behind. Let’s try to unpack a few of the complexities.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesTo undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
- The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/ə] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, […]
- Whereas the high vowels /ʏ, y/ unpack, the mid vowels /œ, ø/ are adapted as single segments in these languages (see examples in (36) for Vietnamese (Barker 1969) and (37) for Fon (Gbeto 2000)). […] French /y/ → Vietnamese /wi/ accu [a'ky] → ac-quy [ak kwi]
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo decompress (data).
- Packages […] are often archived and compressed using the zip utility; you can unpack these with the unzip command[…]
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。