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free-floating

/free-floh-ting/US // ˈfriˈfloʊ tɪŋ //

自由漂浮的,自由浮动的,自由漂浮,自由浮动

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
    • : uncommitted, as to a doctrine, political party, etc.; independent: free-floating opportunists.
    • : capable of relatively free movement.

Examples

  • In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.

  • He observes the bodies floating away on the river, pulling on his cigarette with a sneer.

  • Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

  • The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.

  • Cambodia, with its seemingly free press, is also a haven for foreign journalists.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.

  • If we can free this State of Yankees, we will accomplish more than your armies down south have.

  • The voice of the orator peculiarly should be free from studied effects, and responsive to motive.

  • Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace and among a free people.