set... free 使……自由,釋放
最基本的短語 set ... free 表示“使……得到自由”,可以用來表示監(jiān)獄里釋放犯人等,“解除某人的約束”。
例句:
How about setting your parrot free?
把你的鸚鵡放了怎么樣?
And you let me go. (Just) set me free.
你讓我走吧,放了我吧。
You enjoy him and then set him free.
在享受完了之后就放他走吧。
She escaped herself or someone set her free.
要么是她自己跑出來的,要么有人放了她。
對話:
A: Didn't you have a bird in this cage?
這籠子里不是有一只鸚鵡嗎?
B: I did, but I decided to set him free.
是有過,不過我決定把它給放了。