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/ʌnˈtaɪ/
To take the knots out of something, or to open something that has been tied with string, rope, or laces, so that it is loose or free.
解開；鬆開
過去式 untied過去分詞 untied-ing untying三單 unties
核心畫面
Fingers working a knot loose until the rope falls open. A picture you can hold: whatever was held tight by string, rope, or laces is now slack and free — the tying is being run backwards.
手指鑽進一個結裡，一點一點把它鬆開，繩子最後鬆垮垮地散開。un- 在這裡不是單純的「不」，而是「倒著做一次」——ti…更多收起
手指鑽進一個結裡，一點一點把它鬆開，繩子最後鬆垮垮地散開。un- 在這裡不是單純的「不」，而是「倒著做一次」——tie 是綁起來，untie 就是把綁的動作反過來還原。所以畫面裡一定有兩個東西：一條繩子（或鞋帶、緞帶、繩結），還有一個被它綁住的對象。結一鬆，那個對象就從「被固定」變回「鬆的、自由的」。untie your shoelaces、untie the knot、untie the boat——鞋帶散了、結開了、船離岸了，都是同一個手勢。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。
untieverb/ʌnˈtaɪ/
- 1
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
- to untie a knot
- Haſt thou the pretty vvorme of Nylus [an asp] there, / That killes and paines not? / […] / Come thou mortal vvretch, / VVith thy ſharpe teeth this knot intrinſicate, / Of life at once vntye: Poore venomous Foole, / Be angry, and diſpatch.
- 2
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
- All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- 3
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.
- 4
To become untied or loosed.
- 5
computingengineeringmathematicsIn the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
- After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!
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。