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词汇 unmoor
释义 unmoor
verb
uk /ʌnˈmɔːr/ us /ʌnˈmʊr/

unmoorverb (UNTIE BOAT)


[ I or T ]
to unfasten a boat from something connecting it to land or to the bottom of the sea, a lake, a river, etc.: 解(船)的缆;起(船)的锚
He had attempted to steal a 45ft yacht, without first unmooring it. 他企图偷一艘45英尺长的游艇,却没有先解开系泊的缆绳。
On the 23d of October I unmoored and made ready for sea. 10月23日,我卸下船锚,准备出海。
A boatman is responsible for mooring and unmooring vessels.
Laughing, he unmoored the Orlouge and cast off.
His servant negligently, carelessly and wrongfully unmoored the sloop.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fastening and tying
be locked togetheridiom
belay
bind
board something up
bound
bowline
clamp
gag
granny knot
half hitch
harness
hobble
hogtie
square knot
stake
strap
strap someone in
strap something up
strop
tack

unmoorverb (SEPARATE)


[ T ]
to become less involved with, connected with or influenced by something, or to make someone or something do this: 解掉,去掉;与…脱钩
J. K. Rowling has succeeded in unmooring the boarding school story from wealth, class and snobbery.J. K. 罗琳成功地将寄宿学校的故事与财富、阶级和势利脱钩。
The institution needs to grow, even if that means unmooring itself from its founder's educational ideals.这所学校需要发展,即使这意味着与创始人的教育理想脱钩。
See also
unmoored
He embraced an activism that unmoored his party from its libertarian preference for small government.
Change does not mean that we must dump our friends, shift our tested relationships or unmoor our entire identities.
A linguistic mistake can be telling because it unmoors us from the subject about which we're trying to write.
Every now and then something comes along which is so bonkers and so unhinged that it unmoors itself from all cultural anchoring points.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cutting off and disconnecting
amputate
amputation
amputee
Brexit
castration
chop
chop something off
crop
cut back
disconnected
disconnection
dismember
dismemberment
dissection
dock
microtome
nonconnection
post-amputation
saw something off
sever
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