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词汇 untie
释义 untie
verb[ T ]
uk /ʌnˈtaɪ/ us /ʌnˈtaɪ/present participleuntying | past tense and past participleuntied
B2
to unfasten a knot or something tied解开;松开
Synonym
unlace
Opposites
lace something up
tie(FASTEN)
Examples

I can't untie the knot - it's too tight.我解不开这个结——太紧了。
"I just need to get changed." he said, untying his shoelaces.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unfastening and opening
break something open
breaker
decongestion
gape
let/set something looseidiom
loose
shut (someone) up
steam
tease
tease something out
the earth/ground/floor opensidiom
unbolted
unbuckle
unfold
unknot
unlace
unlock
unlockable
unpick
unzip

untie | American Dictionary


untie
verb[ T ]
us/ʌnˈtɑɪ/present participleuntying | past tense and past participleuntied
to unfasten a knot or something tied:
I had to help her untie her shoelaces.

Examples of untie


untie
Again, the passage of time and accumulation of data will help us to untie this knot.
A change of stress also helps to untie this pair.
This allows us to untie the knot between immutability and necessity.
Recommendations include better targeting, untying from donor requirements, the use of local or regional purchases, and better information systems to anticipate food shortages in time, and to avoid belated arrivals.
It is like using a bodkin to untie a knot; there is nothing to which it is applied that it does not give order to. 11.
The very valuable chronology, and the biographies of the persons named, modestly conceal the difficulty of the labours which produced them and the complexity of the scholarly knots they untie.
Once the ligatures untied, the arteries became enlarged, through which, before that, hardly little discoloured and poor blood had circulated, and life commenced making itself felt in consequence of it.
Finally, there came the traffic wardens who were to work all these aids in order to help untie the knot.
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He seems to suggest that the untying of a cottage might mean placing a financial burden on the cottager.
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Another question raised was whether a tied house had to be untied before application could be made for a grant.
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But we decided on various measures with which to start untying that knot.
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Will the owner-occupier run the risk of lowering the value of his farm by untying his cottages?
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He obviously wants houses to be untied so that the farmer and the agricultural worker may get the advantage of the grant.
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The tying of aid limits the choices of the recipient country; the untying of aid removes important and costly restrictions.
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This is a scheme to untie and rationalise a highly irrational process.
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