unwind

FREQ #18349 ★☆☆☆☆

vt. 展开 [化] 拆卷; 开卷

发音

AU /ʌnˈwaɪnd/

词形变化

unwinds 复数 unwinds unwindeth unwinding unwinds 三单 unwound unwinding 现在分词 unwound 过去式 unwound 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.

v.
  1. 1.

    To separate (something that is wound up)

    及物

    to unwind a ball of yarn

    Could you unwind about a foot of ribbon so I can finish the package?

  2. 2.

    To disentangle

    废旧 及物
  3. 3.

    To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress

    非正式 不及物

    After work, I like to unwind by smoking a pipe while reading the paper.

  4. 4.

    To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.

    不及物
  5. 5.

    To close out a position, especially a complicated position.

    及物 商务 金融
  6. 6.

    To undo something.

    及物 商务 金融
  7. 7.

    To navigate back through (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.

    及物 计算机 工程 数学
  8. 8.

    Synonym of unroll (“replace a loop with a sequence”).

    及物 计算机 工程 数学
  9. 9.

    To unravel or explain.

    比喻 及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 10

relax decompress slow down loosen up disentangle unbend unlax unroll unstrain wind off

反义词 1

wind

上位词 5

move turn affect undo displace

下位词 9

straighten let go sit back take it easy uncoil roll out unbend vegetate veg out

词源

From Middle English unwinden, from Old English unwindan (“to unwind; unwrap”), from Proto-Germanic *andawindaną (“to unwind”); equivalent to un- + wind (“to coil”). Cognate with Dutch ontwinden (“to unwind”).

来源：wiktionary