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loose是什么意思

loose

英 [lu?s] 美 [lus]

adj. 寬松的；散漫的；不牢固的；不精確的
vt. 釋放；開船；放槍
vi. 變松；開火
adv. 松散地
n. 放縱；放任；發(fā)射
n. (Loose)人名；(捷、瑞典)洛塞；(英)盧斯；(德)洛澤

中文詞源

loose 松的

來自lose的形容詞，松開的，松的。

英文詞源

loose: loose: [13] Loose is one of a large family of words that go back ultimately to Indo-European *lau-, *leu-, *lu-, which denoted ‘undoing’. It includes (via Greek) analyse and paralyse, (via Latin) dissolve and solution, and (via Germanic) lose and the suffix -less. Loose itself was borrowed from Old Norse laus, which was descended from a prehistoric Germanic *lausaz.
=> analyse, dissolve, lose, paralyse, solution
loose (adj.): early 13c., "not securely fixed;" c. 1300, "unbound," from Old Norse lauss "loose, free, vacant, dissolute," cognate with Old English leas "devoid of, false, feigned, incorrect," from Proto-Germanic *lausaz (cognates: Danish l?s "loose, untied," Swedish l?s "loose, movable, detached," Middle Dutch, German los "loose, free," Gothic laus "empty, vain"), from PIE *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart" (see lose). Meaning "not clinging, slack" is mid-15c. Meaning "not bundled" is late 15c. Sense of "unchaste, immoral" is recorded from late 15c. Meaning "at liberty, free from obligation" is 1550s. Sense of "rambling, disconnected" is from 1680s. Figurative sense of loose cannon was in use by 1896, probably from celebrated image in a popular story by Hugo:
You can reason with a bull dog, astonish a bull, fascinate a boa, frighten a tiger, soften a lion; no resource with such a monster as a loose cannon. You cannot kill it, it is dead; and at the same time it lives. It lives with a sinister life which comes from the infinite. It is moved by the ship, which is moved by the sea, which is moved by the wind. This exterminator is a plaything. [Victor Hugo, "Ninety Three"]
Loose end in reference to something unfinished, undecided, unguarded is from 1540s; to be at loose ends is from 1807. Phrase on the loose "free, unrestrained" is from 1749 (upon the loose).
loose (v.): early 13c, "to set free," from loose (adj.). Meaning "to undo, untie, unfasten" is 14c. Related: Loosed; loosing.

雙語例句

1. She unbound her hair and let it flow loose in the wind.: 她把頭發(fā)解開，讓它隨風(fēng)飄動。

2. She gathered loose soil and let it filter slowly through her fingers.: 她捧起疏松的泥土，任其緩緩地從指間漏下。

3. She was pretty and young, in a loose smocked sundress.: 她年輕貌美，一身寬松的刺繡太陽裙。

4. A man-eating lion is on the loose somewhere in England.: 英格蘭有一頭吃人的獅子跑出來了。

5. A gust of wind pried loose a section of sheet-metal roofing.: 一陣狂風(fēng)把鋪在屋頂上的一塊金屬片掀起來了。

loose是什么意思

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