Emancipation
[ɪ,mænsɪ'peɪʃ(ə)n] or [ɪ,mænsə'peʃən]
解释:
(noun.) freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child.
斐迪南整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.
编辑:瑞伊
同义词及近义词：
a. Enfranchisement, manumission, liberation, release, deliverance.
手打:尼尔
娱乐性解释：
n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.
塞西莉整理
例句:
- I want to take up Wilberforce's and Romilly's line, you know, and work at Negro Emancipation, Criminal Law--that kind of thing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The Greeks alone argued whether it was right to have them--and 'cranks' occasionally proposed emancipation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This is a great emancipation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Doubtless the scheme may have been used, in unjustifiable ways, as a means of retarding our emancipation. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- It is better to have said one word for the emancipation of the race than to have written the greatest novel of the times. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The process of negro emancipation is infinitely slower and it is not accomplished yet. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The great-grandfather was the first freeman of Pasteur's forbears, having purchased with money his emancipation from serfdom. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Lately, the internal combustion engine, together with its application in the kerosene tractor, promises to make the farmer’s emancipation practically complete. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- With Carthoris at my side I fought for the red men of Barsoom and for their total emancipation from the throttling bondage of a hideous superstition. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- They are likely to regard the Emancipation Proclamation as the end of chattel slavery. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Many educated and, otherwise, sensible persons appeared to believe that emancipation meant social equality. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The emancipation of the slaves might teach us the lesson that an explosion followed by reconstruction is satisfactory to nobody. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But he has the same sort of enthusiasm for liberty, freedom, emancipation--a fine thing under guidance--under guidance, you know. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The power of emancipation is in the social movements which alone can effect any deep reform in a nation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
手打:曼弗雷德