emancipate

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vt. 释放, 解放

发音

UK /ɪˈmæn(t)sɪpeɪt/
UK /ɪˈmæn(t)sɪpət/
其它
US /əˈmæn(t)səˌpeɪt/
US /əˈmæn(t)səˌpət/
US /i-/

词形变化

emancipated emancipates 三单 emancipates emancipateth emancipating emancipating 现在分词 emancipated 过去式 emancipated 过去分词 emancipatest emancipatedst 过去式 emancipateth 三单 emancipated 复数 more emancipate 比较级 most emancipate 最高级

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.

    解放

    及物
  2. 2.

    To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.

    To cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.

    及物

    to emancipate a colony

  3. 3.

    To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.

    Often followed by from: chiefly with reference to slavery in the United States, and in Central and South America: to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery.

    翻身

    及物

    to pass a law emancipating slaves

  4. 4.

    To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.

    To release (a minor) from the legal authority and custody which a parent or guardian has over them; also (Ancient Rome, historical), to release (a child) from the legal authority of the paterfamilias.

    及物 法律

    The child was emancipated from her parents

  5. 5.

    Often followed by from: to free (oneself or someone, or something) from some constraint or controlling influence (especially when evil or undue); also, to free (oneself or someone) from mental oppression.

    比喻 及物

    Education can emancipate us from error or prejudices.

  6. 6.

    To place (something) under one's control; specifically (chiefly reflexive), to cause (oneself or someone) to become the slave of another person; to enslave; also, to subjugate (oneself or someone).

    废旧 及物
  7. 7.

    To become free from the oppression or restraint of another.

    不及物 废旧
adj.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of emancipated (“having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free”).

词汇关系

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin ēmancipātus (“liberated, emancipated”) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by the specified thing’). Ēmancipātus is the perfect passive participle of ēmancipō (“to declare (someone) free and independent of another’s power, emancipate; to give (something) from one’s authority or power into that of another, to alienate, transfer; to cause (oneself or someone) to become another’s slave; to make (someone) subservient”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mancipō (“to sell; to transfer”) (from manceps (“owner, possessor; purchaser; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs)); and manceps is from Proto-Italic *manukaps, from *manus (“hand”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon; to signal”)) + *-kaps (suffix denoting a catcher) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to grab, seize; to hold”); referring to one who catches something in the hand). The verb emancipate has verb sense 1.1 (“to set free”) and verb sense 1.3 (“(obsolete) to place under one’s control”) which are contradictory. The Latin word ēmancipō had the same senses, and the Oxford English Dictionary notes that according to the Latin grammarian Paulus Festus (fl. 8th century) this is because both actions were effected by the legal process of mancipation.

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