emancipate

emancipate
[ɪˈmansɪpeɪt]
verb
  1. [with obj.]set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions
    解放,使不受(法律、社会或政治的)约束
    the citizen must be emancipated from the obsessive secrecy of government.
    公民对政府必须享有知情权。
    [as adj. emancipated]emancipated young women.
    获得解放的年轻妇女。
    ■(Law)set (a child) free from the authority of its father or parents
    (律)使(孩子)摆脱亲权统治
    ■free from slavery
    使摆脱被奴役地位
    it is estimated that he emancipated 8,000 slaves.
    据估计,他使8,000名奴隶获得了自由。
派生
emancipation
noun
emancipator
noun
emancipatory
adjective
语源
  1. early 17th cent.: from Latin emancipat- 'transferred as property', from the verb emancipare, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + mancipium 'slave'
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