liberate

liberate
verb
[with obj.]

(常作be liberated)set (someone) free from a situation, especially imprisonment or slavery, in which their liberty is severely restricted
解放，释放
the serfs had been liberated.
农奴解放了。
■free (a country city, or people) from enemy occupation
解放（敌方占领和统治的国家、城市或人民）
twelve months earlier Paris had been liberated.
巴黎在12个月前就已解放了。
■release (someone) from a state or situation which limits freedom of thought or behaviour
解放（思想)，使摆脱思想（或行为）上的束缚
the use of computers can liberate pupils from the constraints of disabilities.
使用电脑可以让小学生们摆脱残疾的束缚。
[as adj. liberating]the arts can have a liberating effect on people.
艺术能解放人的思想。
■free (someone) from rigid social conventions, especially those concerned with accepted sexual roles
（从刻板的社会习俗中）解放（尤指摆脱关于两性地位和作用的传统习俗或观念）
ways of working politically that liberate women.
解放妇女的政治手段。
■(informal)steal (something)
(非正式)偷
the drummer's wearing a beret he's liberated from Lord knows where.
那个鼓手戴着一顶不知从哪里偷来的贝雷帽。
■(Chemistry & Physics)release (gas, energy, etc.) as a result of chemical reaction or physical decomposition
(化，物理)释放（气体、能量等）
energy liberated by the annihilation of matter.
物质湮灭所释放出来的能量。

派生
liberation
noun
liberationist
noun
liberator
noun
语源

late 16th cent.: from Latin liberat '-freed', from the verb liberare, from liber 'free'

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