adj.松的；寬松的；不確切的；不牢固的；放縱的
n.解放；放任；放縱
v.弄松；釋放；放槍
adv.松散地
The screw worked itself loose and the door fell off the cupboard. 螺絲松了，門從櫥柜上掉下來了。
She wore loose garments in the summer. 她在夏天穿寬松的衣服。
Loose labour regulations are one reason. 寬松的勞動(dòng)規(guī)則是原因之一。
It is used these days in a very loose sense by a great many people. 現(xiàn)在,許多人用起它來是很不確切的。
She was branded a loose woman. 她被標(biāo)為放縱的女人。
用作名詞 (n.)Shake yourself loose from the accreted layers of presuppositions and assumptions that your profession has built up around the topic. 把自己從本專業(yè)對(duì)此所建立的厚厚預(yù)設(shè)和假定中解放出來。
I still think a lot about transportation -- you never loose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby. 我直到現(xiàn)在還想著很多有關(guān)交通的問題，你不要放任夢(mèng)想，而要把它當(dāng)作一種習(xí)慣去培育。
But if we leave, we loose it and I can't make an entire life disappear to start a new one. 可是如果我們走了，我們放縱它，我不能結(jié)束自己完整的生活去開始一段新的生活。
Things were not just lax, but loose, as though everyone but him had grown to accept the situation. 這里的事物已不能說是松懈，應(yīng)該拿放縱來形容，好像除了他以外，每個(gè)人都漸漸接受了這個(gè)處境。
用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)Please help me loose the nail, It is rusty and won't come out of the wall. 請(qǐng)幫我把這個(gè)釘子弄松，它生銹了，拔不出來。
A chemical change has to take place before the energy can be let loose. 能量釋放，必須有化學(xué)變化。
loose與loosen，lose的比較：loose作動(dòng)詞指“釋放，放松”，作形容詞指“寬松的”。loosen作動(dòng)詞，指“松開，解開”。lose是一個(gè)不規(guī)則動(dòng)詞，意為“丟失，遺失”。lose還常用來表示運(yùn)動(dòng)比賽中的“輸”，且在主語為人時(shí)，不可使用被動(dòng)語態(tài)。
