loose

英 [luːs] 美 [luːs]

• adj. 松的；宽松的；不确切的；不牢固的；放纵的
• n. 解放；放任；放纵
• v. 弄松；释放；放枪
• adv. 松散地

双解释义

adj. (形容词)

1. 松的,宽松的;未绑紧的

   not tight;not tied or fixed

2. 不精确的,不严密的

   not accurate or exact

3. 自由的;释放的;散漫的

   free

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 放荡的，荒淫的
2. 散漫的，松散的
3. 不严谨的，不拘谨的
4. 松的，松开的，松动的，疏松的
5. 宽的
6. 不确切的
7. 自由的，宽松的，没加束缚的，未予束缚的，未控制的
8. 模糊的
9. 不结实的
10. 散放的

n. 名词

1. 解放
2. 放任，放纵
3. 发射，放射
4. 自由

v. 动词

1. 松开，解，弄松，解开，使松疏
2. 变松，松弛，放松
3. 放掉，释放，（把…）放开，放
4. 放射，射出，射
5. 开枪，放（枪、箭），开火， 射（箭）
6. 放学
7. 放任，使自由
8. 不受约束地表达
9. 失去控制
10. 开船

adv. 副词

1. 松散地
2. 松松地，松弛地
3. 不严格地
4. 不精确地
5. 放荡地

英英释义

Adjective:

1. not compact or dense in structure or arrangement;

   "loose gravel"
   

2. (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player;

   "a loose ball"
   

3. not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting;

   "loose clothing"
   "the large shoes were very loose"
   

4. not officially recognized or controlled;

   "an informal agreement"
   "a loose organization of the local farmers"
   

5. not literal;

   "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"
   "a free translation of the poem"
   

6. emptying easily or excessively;

   "loose bowels"
   

7. not affixed;

   "the stamp came loose"
   

8. not tense or taut;

   "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"
   "slack and wrinkled skin"
   "slack sails"
   "a slack rope"
   

9. (of textures) full of small openings or gaps;

   "an open texture"
   "a loose weave"
   

10. lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility;

    "idle talk"
    "a loose tongue"
    

11. not carefully arranged in a package;

    "a box of loose nails"
    

12. having escaped, especially from confinement;

    "a convict still at large"
    "searching for two escaped prisoners"
    "dogs loose on the streets"
    "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"
    

13. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior;

    "her easy virtue"
    "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"
    "wanton behavior"
    

Adverb:

1. without restraint;

   "cows in India are running loose"
   

Verb:

1. grant freedom to; free from confinement

2. turn loose or free from restraint;

   "let loose mines"
   "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"
   

3. make loose or looser;

   "loosen the tension on a rope"
   

4. become loose or looser or less tight;

   "The noose loosened"
   "the rope relaxed"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. The screw worked itself loose and the door fell off the cupboard.
   螺丝松了，门从橱柜上掉下来了。
2. She wore loose garments in the summer.
   她在夏天穿宽松的衣服。
3. Loose labour regulations are one reason.
   宽松的劳动规则是原因之一。
4. It is used these days in a very loose sense by a great many people.
   现在,许多人用起它来是很不确切的。
5. She was branded a loose woman.
   她被标为放纵的女人。

用作名词 (n.)

1. This will ship to our customer via their consolidator as loose freight.
   这将会经由他们的整合者对我们的客户运送如解放船货。
2. Shake yourself loose from the accreted layers of presuppositions and assumptions that your profession has built up around the topic.
   把自己从本专业对此所建立的厚厚预设和假定中解放出来。
3. I still think a lot about transportation -- you never loose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
   我直到现在还想着很多有关交通的问题，你不要放任梦想，而要把它当作一种习惯去培育。
4. But if we leave, we loose it and I can't make an entire life disappear to start a new one.
   可是如果我们走了，我们放纵它，我不能结束自己完整的生活去开始一段新的生活。
5. Things were not just lax, but loose, as though everyone but him had grown to accept the situation.
   这里的事物已不能说是松懈，应该拿放纵来形容，好像除了他以外，每个人都渐渐接受了这个处境。

用作动词 (v.)

1. Please help me loose the nail, It is rusty and won't come out of the wall.
   请帮我把这个钉子弄松，它生锈了，拔不出来。
2. A chemical change has to take place before the energy can be let loose.
   能量释放，必须有化学变化。
3. Men were loosing off at shadows.
   士兵向黑影射击。

常见句型

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语

～+ n.

1. She is wearing a loose dress.
   她穿着一件宽松的连衣裙。
2. Loose shirts are good for summer wear.
   夏季适合穿肥大的衬衣。
3. The radio wasn't working because of a loose connection in the wires.
   这台收音机坏了,是由于电线接头不牢的原因。
4. He is a loose thinker.
   他是个思维不严密的人。
5. That word has many loose meanings.
   那个词有很多不确切的含意。

用作表语

S+be+～

1. The buttons on my coat are loose.
   我上衣的纽扣松了。
2. Your translation is rather loose.
   你的译文不怎么确切。
3. The horse is loose in the field.
   马在田野里自由自在。

S+be+～+to- v

1. His logic is too loose to make much sense.
   他的推理太不严密,没什么道理。

用作宾语补足语

S+V+O+～

1. I have one hand loose but the other is tied.
   我的一只手松开着,另一只被捆。

经典引文

• There was a mass murderer loose.

  出自： A. Price

• Cook's loose ones [dogs], running amok, could be counted on to..drive the tied ones berserk.

  出自： J. McPhee

• The captiue exile hasteneth that he may be loosed.

  出自：Bible (AV): Isaiah

• Loosed from remorse and hope and love's distress.

  出自： W. de la Mare

• The industry's reluctance to loose information on the non-expert world.

  出自：New Yorker

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

• loose life 散漫的生活
• loose thinker 思想不严密的人
• loose tongue 随口乱讲

动词+～

• break loose 挣脱
• come loose 松开来
• cut loose 解开
• hold loose 漠然置之
• let loose 释放
• set loose 松手

词语用法

1. loose与loosen，lose的比较：loose作动词指“释放，放松”，作形容词指“宽松的”。loosen作动词，指“松开，解开”。lose是一个不规则动词，意为“丢失，遗失”。lose还常用来表示运动比赛中的“输”，且在主语为人时，不可使用被动语态。

词义辨析

loose，slack

• 这两个形容词均含“松驰的”之意。
• loose常用，通俗，指人的精神或东西的松驰。
• slack强调缺乏牢固性或稳固性，不坚定。

词源解说

• ☆ 1300年左右进入英语，直接源自古北欧语的lauss，意为松弛的，自由的，空白的；最初源自古英语的leas，意为缺乏的，错误的。

近反义词

【近义词】

• free
• unfastened
• untied

【反义词】

• close
• compact
• strict
• tense
• tight