free是什么意思_free怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint;"free enterprise"
"a free port"
"a free country"
"I have an hour free"
"free will"
"free of racism"
"feel free to stay as long as you wish"
"a free choice"

unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion;"free expansion"
"free oxygen"
"a free electron"

costing nothing;"complimentary tickets"
"free admission"

not occupied or in use;"a free locker"
"a free lane"

not fixed in position;"the detached shutter fell on him"
"he pulled his arm free and ran"

not held in servitude;"after the Civil War he was a free man"

not taken up by scheduled activities;"a free hour between classes"
"spare time on my hands"

completely wanting or lacking;"writing barren of insight"
"young recruits destitute of experience"
"innocent of literary merit"
"the sentence was devoid of meaning"

not literal;"a loose interpretation of what she had been told"
"a free translation of the poem"

Adverb:

without restraint;"cows in India are running loose"

Verb:

grant freedom to; free from confinement

relieve from;"Rid the house of pests"

remove or force out from a position;"The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"
"He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"

grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to;"She exempted me from the exam"

make (information) available for publication;"release the list with the names of the prisoners"

free from obligations or duties

free or remove obstruction from;"free a path across the cluttered floor"

let off the hook;"I absolve you from this responsibility"

part with a possession or right;"I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"
"resign a claim to the throne"

release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

make (assets) available;"release the holdings in the dictator"s bank account"

中英词源

free 自由的，空闲的

来自PIE*pri, 爱，友爱，词源同friend, Frigga. 词义由爱引申为亲人，朋友，和平，自由，免费。类似词义演变比较kind.

free: free: [OE] The prehistoric ancestor of free was a term of affection uniting the members of a family in a common bond, and implicitly excluding their servants or slaves – those who were not ‘free’. It comes ultimately from Indo- European *prijos, whose signification ‘dear, beloved’ is revealed in such collateral descendants as Sanskrit priyás ‘dear’, Russian prijatel’ ‘friend’, and indeed English friend.

Its Germanic offspring, *frijaz, displays the shift from ‘affection’ to ‘liberty’, as shown in German frei, Dutch vrij, Swedish and Danish fri, and English free. Welsh rhydd ‘free’ comes from the same Indo-European source.
=> friday, friend
free (adj.): Old English freo "free, exempt from, not in bondage, acting of one"s own will," also "noble; joyful," from Proto-Germanic *frija- "beloved; not in bondage" (cognates: Old Frisian fri, Old Saxon vri, Old High German vri, German frei, Dutch vrij, Gothic freis "free"), from PIE *priy-a- "dear, beloved," from root *pri- "to love" (cognates: Sanskrit priyah "own, dear, beloved," priyate "loves;" Old Church Slavonic prijati "to help," prijatelji "friend;" Welsh rhydd "free").

The primary Germanic sense seems to have been "beloved, friend, to love;" which in some languages (notably Germanic and Celtic) developed also a sense of "free," perhaps from the terms "beloved" or "friend" being applied to the free members of one"s clan (as opposed to slaves; compare Latin liberi, meaning both "free persons" and "children of a family"). For the older sense in Germanic, compare Gothic frijon "to love;" Old English freod "affection, friendship, peace," friga "love," friðu "peace;" Old Norse friðr "peace, personal security; love, friendship," German Friede "peace;" Old English freo "wife;" Old Norse Frigg "wife of Odin," literally "beloved" or "loving;" Middle Low German vrien "to take to wife," Dutch vrijen, German freien "to woo."

Meaning "clear of obstruction" is from mid-13c.; sense of "unrestrained in movement" is from c. 1300; of animals, "loose, at liberty, wild," late 14c. Meaning "liberal, not parsimonious" is from c. 1300. Sense of "characterized by liberty of action or expression" is from 1630s; of art, etc., "not holding strictly to rule or form," from 1813. Of nations, "not subject to foreign rule or to despotism," recorded in English from late 14c. (Free world "non-communist nations" attested from 1950 on notion of "based on principles of civil liberty.") Sense of "given without cost" is 1580s, from notion of "free of cost."

Free lunch, originally offered in bars to draw in customers, by 1850, American English. Free pass on railways, etc., attested by 1850. Free speech in Britain was used of a privilege in Parliament since the time of Henry VIII. In U.S., in reference to a civil right to expression, it became a prominent phrase in the debates over the Gag Rule (1836). Free enterprise recorded from 1832; free trade is from 1823; free market from 1630s. Free will is from early 13c. Free school is from late 15c. Free association in psychology is from 1899. Free love "sexual liberation" attested from 1822 (the doctrine itself is much older), American English. Free and easy "unrestrained" is from 1690s.
free (v.): Old English freogan "to free, liberate, manumit," also "to love, think of lovingly, honor;" also "to rid (of something)," from freo "not in bondage" (see free (adj.)). The forking sense in the Germanic adjective is reflected in the verbs that grew from it in the daughter languages. Compare Old Frisian fria "to make free;" Old Saxon friohan "to court, woo;" German befreien "to free," freien "to woo;" Old Norse frja "to love;" Gothic frijon "to love." Related: Freed; freeing.

词态变化

第三人称单数 frees;
过去式 freed;
过去分词 freed;
现在分词 freeing;
比较级 freer;
最高级 freest;

权威造句

1. I wasn"t expecting you to do it for free.: 我并没有指望你白干。

2. You get a big salary incentive and free board and lodging too.: 你们能获得大笔激励性薪水，还可享受免费膳宿。

3. The shark was writhing around wildly, trying to get free.: 鲨鱼拼命挣扎，试图逃脱。

4. What I did for you was free, gratis, you understand?: 我为你所做的一切都是免费的，无偿的，你明白吗？

5. They broke free and made off in a stolen car.: 他们挣脱后开着一辆偷来的车逃之夭夭。

近反义词

adj.

at leisure

at liberty

without charge

liberate

release

相似短语

be free with v. 直爽,坦白

for free 免费地,无偿地

free of adj.无...的,在...外面,摆脱...的

free will n.,自愿,自由意志

free with 1.不节省地用
2.大方地用

free and in 装货船方免责见free in.

free to vt.能够自由

be free to aux.能够自由

be free 免费

be free of 免于

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