词汇释义
disengage TEM8 IELTS GRE
UK /ˌdɪs.ɪŋˈɡeɪdʒ/ US /ˌdɪs.ɪŋˈɡeɪdʒ/
1. verb, If you disengage something, or if it disengages, it becomes separate from something which it has been attached to. （使）脱离，（使）松开，解开，拆开
2. verb, If an army disengages from an area, it withdraws from that area. (军队)撤军
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外刊例句
1. Next time the VP starts nattering on in a group about the unmanageable stepchild or the incompetent mother, focus silently on something in your lap and stay disengaged until the topic changes.(Washington Post)
2. A directive issued after the Indonesian crash instructed pilots to use cut-out switches to disengage the system in the event of problems and leave it switched off.(The Guardian)
3. It also alleges Boeing failed to provide adequate instructions to pilots on how to respond to and disengage the plane’s anti-stall system.(Reuters)
4. Buzz Aldrin seemed less conciliatory, telling the Wall Street Journal that, “I intend to disengage as a repairman of family ruptures.”(Washington Post)
5. California, for example, requires manufacturers to report instances when an autonomous vehicle system disengages.(Reuters)
6. Yet that year the company was criticized by leaders in Seattle and the news media for being disengaged from civic life compared with stalwarts like Boeing and Starbucks.(New York Times)
7.When elected leaders fail to deliver hoped-for improvements, the public disengages.(TheEconomist)
8. It looked like Trump was ready to pull away first, but Macron wasn’t quite ready to disengage.(Seattle Times)
9. Markets are awaiting news on Trump’s plan to disengage from his businesses and on his policy positions.(Seattle Times)
10. Consumers will need to shut off power to the lights and disengage the lamp to check the item number and date code.(Seattle Times)
11.Then there are his foreign-policy pronouncements, including a willingness to disengage from overseas defence alliances.(TheEconomist)
12. Once on autopilot, the car tried to change lanes but then reverted back suddenly, and another time it disengaged the autopilot mode in the middle of a lane switch, Souppouris said.(Los Angeles Times)
词汇搭配
disengage yourself, from, people
词汇家族
disengages, disengaged, disengaging, disengagedness, disengagement
词汇来源
c. 1600 in figurative sense "loosen from that which entangles;" 1660s in literal sense of "detach, release from connection," from dis- "do the opposite of" + engage (q.v.). Intransitive sense of "withdraw, become separated" is from 1640s.
近义词
clear, disembarrass, disentangle, extricate, free, liberate, release, untangle
反义词
embroil, entangle, attach, connect, bind, collect, combine, couple, engage, fasten, gather, hold, join, keep, link, maintain, unite, involve, mire, implicate, incriminate, enmesh, ensnare, restrain, hook, limit, enchain, fetter
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