loose

• adj. 宽松的；散漫的；不牢固的；不精确的
• vt. 释放；开船；放枪
• vi. 变松；开火
• adv. 松散地
• n. 放纵；放任；发射
• n. (Loose)人名；(捷、瑞典)洛塞；(英)卢斯；(德)洛泽

来自lose的形容词，松开的，松的。

1. grant freedom to; free from confinement

2. turn loose or free from restraint;

"let loose mines"

"Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"

3. make loose or looser;

"loosen the tension on a rope"

4. become loose or looser or less tight;

"The noose loosened"

"the rope relaxed"

loose

loose: [13] Loose is one of a large family of words that go back ultimately to Indo-European *lau-, *leu-, *lu-, which denoted ‘undoing’. It includes (via Greek) analyse and paralyse, (via Latin) dissolve and solution, and (via Germanic) lose and the suffix -less. Loose itself was borrowed from Old Norse laus, which was descended from a prehistoric Germanic *lausaz.
=> analyse, dissolve, lose, paralyse, solution

loose (adj.)

early 13c., "not securely fixed;" c. 1300, "unbound," from Old Norse lauss "loose, free, vacant, dissolute," cognate with Old English leas "devoid of, false, feigned, incorrect," from Proto-Germanic *lausaz (cognates: Danish løs "loose, untied," Swedish lös "loose, movable, detached," Middle Dutch, German los "loose, free," Gothic laus "empty, vain"), from PIE *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart" (see lose). Meaning "not clinging, slack" is mid-15c. Meaning "not bundled" is late 15c. Sense of "unchaste, immoral" is recorded from late 15c. Meaning "at liberty, free from obligation" is 1550s. Sense of "rambling, disconnected" is from 1680s. Figurative sense of loose cannon was in use by 1896, probably from celebrated image in a popular story by Hugo:

You can reason with a bull dog, astonish a bull, fascinate a boa, frighten a tiger, soften a lion; no resource with such a monster as a loose cannon. You cannot kill it, it is dead; and at the same time it lives. It lives with a sinister life which comes from the infinite. It is moved by the ship, which is moved by the sea, which is moved by the wind. This exterminator is a plaything. [Victor Hugo, "Ninety Three"]

Loose end in reference to something unfinished, undecided, unguarded is from 1540s; to be at loose ends is from 1807. Phrase on the loose "free, unrestrained" is from 1749 (upon the loose).

loose (v.)

early 13c, "to set free," from loose (adj.). Meaning "to undo, untie, unfasten" is 14c. Related: Loosed; loosing.

loose, slack

这两个形容词均含"松驰的"之意。

loose： 常用，通俗。指人的精神或东西的松驰。

slack： 强调缺乏牢固性或稳固性，不坚定。

A pilot from virginia removed his son's loose tooth using a helicopter.

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New York city police captured a cow on the loose in Prospect Park on Tuesday after the animal became an attraction for tourists while walking along the streets and enjoying the park facilities.

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rick Rahim, from virginia, flies helicopters for a living, and when his seven-year-old son's tooth became loose he did not waste time by tying it to a door handle.

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Also, don't wear loose clothes, long scarves, big necklaces, or loose belts — they get caught in something or fall into liquid.

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a loose button/tooth

松动的纽扣 / 牙齿

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Check that the plug has not come loose .

检查一下别让插头松脱了。

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She usually wears her hair loose.

她通常披散着头发。

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The potatoes were sold loose, not in bags.

土豆是散装而不是袋装出售。

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The sheep had got out and were loose on the road.

那些羊跑出来在路上自由自在地走动。

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The horse had broken loose (= escaped) from its tether.

那匹马挣脱缰绳跑了。

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During the night, somebody had cut the boat loose from its moorings.

有人在夜间砍断了泊船的缆绳。

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a loose shirt

宽大的衬衣

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loose soil

疏松的土壤

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If a tooth feels very loose, your dentist may recommend that it's taken out...

如果有一颗牙齿很松，牙医可能会建议你把它拔掉。

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Two wooden beams had come loose from the ceiling...

房顶上有两根木梁已经松动。

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Two young men were racing motorcycles on the loose gravel...

两个小伙子正在松散的砾石路面上赛摩托车。

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Frank emptied a handful of loose change on the table...

弗兰克将一把零钱撒在桌子上。

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She broke loose from his embrace and crossed to the window...

她从他怀抱里挣脱出来，走到窗前。

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Why didn't you tell me she'd been set loose?...

你干吗不告诉我她已经自由了？

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A pistol wasn't that hard to hide under a loose shirt...

在宽松的衬衣下藏一把手枪并不难。

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Wear loose clothes as they're more comfortable.

穿宽松的衣服，这样会更舒服。

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She was still in her nightdress, with her hair hanging loose over her shoulders.

她还穿着睡衣，头发披散至肩。

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She gathered loose soil and let it filter slowly through her fingers.

她捧起疏松的泥土，任其缓缓地从指间漏下。

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Murray and Alison came to some sort of loose arrangement before he went home...

默里在回家前和艾莉森达成了大致的约定。

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He wants a loose coalition of leftwing forces.

他希望左翼力量形成一个松散的联盟。

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...a loose translation...

不精确的译文

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He despised loose thinking.

他鄙视不严谨的思维。

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Is an actress who strips off in public necessarily a loose woman in private?...

在公众面前宽衣解带的女演员私下里就一定是荡妇吗？

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Lust now seems to be associated with casual sex and loose morals.

色欲如今似乎与性生活随便和道德放纵联系在一起了。

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He trained his gun down and loosed a brief burst.

他用枪瞄准下面后，砰砰射出一串子弹。

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He gave a grunt and loosed his grip on the rifle...

他闷哼了一声，松开了握着来复枪的手。

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The guards loosed his arms.

警卫放开了他的胳膊。

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Up to a thousand prisoners may be on the loose inside the jail...

监狱里可能有上千名囚犯跑出了牢房。

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A man-eating lion is on the loose somewhere in England.

英格兰有一头吃人的狮子跑出来了。

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