free rein

英 [friː reɪn]

美 [friː reɪn]

自由放任；完全的行动自由

英英释义

noun

• the removal of constraints
  1. he gave free rein to his impulses
  2. they gave full play to the artist's talent
  Synonym:play

双语例句

• To begin with, studying alone gives us free rein over what and how we study.
  首先，独自念书时我们能自由决定读书的内容和方式。
• Without an attractive means to hold the reserves they need to intervene in international markets, central banks and governments would be reluctant to give those markets free rein.
  如果不能通过有效途径持有干预国际市场所需的储备，各国央行和政府将不愿意让国际市场自由发展。
• The organizers gave me pretty much free rein in picking my topic, so I decided to talk about this.
  “组织者给了我非常放手挑我的话题，所以我决定谈论此事”。
• She gave them free rein to change the kitchen, though.
  不过，她允许他们自由改装厨房。
• You may give free rein to your imaginations when admiring a mass of such colors: pink clouds in the horizon, a vast, open country, a long-gone history, or memory of your last intoxication.
  面对这一片片的色彩，你可以把他看成天边的彩霞，也可以把他看成广袤的原野，还可以把他看成沉淀了的历史，更可以把他看成每一次醉酒的印痕。
• Father is strict with the children, but Mother gives them free rein.
  父亲对孩子很严，但母亲却任其随心所欲。
• Kernel errors happen in the inner sanctum of the operating system, which lets in only essential programs drivers and the like and then gives them free rein.
  核心错误发生在操作系统内部，这些部分只允许像驱动程序这样的关键程序访问，并给予这些程序运作的自由。
• Big private equity funds expect to do business in Russia as they do in other places, where they buy control and get free rein to do anything they want with management.
  他表示：大型私人股本基金期望，能够像在其它国家那样在俄罗斯开展业务。在其它国家，它们可以购入控股权，不受限制地随意处置被购企业管理层。
• The Supreme Court has generally held that Congress has free rein in determining where that public interest lies.
  最高法院一般认为，国会可以自由决定公共利益的范围。
• The nation's leaders also may want the West to come back in order to balance the influence of China, which has had virtually free rein to exploit Myanmar's vast natural resources.
  政府领导人也希望与西方合作以平衡中国在缅影响力，中国现在几乎可以不受任何限制地开采缅甸的巨大自然资源。