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unlearn

/uhn-lurn/US // ʌnˈlɜrn //UK // (ʌnˈlɜːn) //

不学习,解除学习,放弃学习,放弃

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to forget or lose knowledge of.
    • : to discard or put aside certain knowledge as being false or binding: to unlearn preconceptions.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to lose or discard knowledge.

Examples

  • Learning racial literacy can help young people unlearn and refuse all forms of social domination—to reconfigure, together, how we relate to one another.

  • All of us really need to do work into our communities to unlearn these harmful narratives about each other.

  • I was shocked by the dramatic discovery, but to really understand it, I first had to unlearn some things.

  • I learned some things I can never unlearn about organic decomposition and human bone.

  • I learned some things I can't unlearn: human kneecaps look like rocks; bones when burnt, shrink and twist.

  • Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

  • About how your character and judgments were formed and how you came to unlearn that first and not always painful formation?

  • Two friends try to unlearn bad-relationship habits by dating each other, exclusively, for 40 days.

  • Who likes to own that he has been a fool all his life,—to unlearn all that he has been taught in his youth?

  • As art multiplies, false tastes will arise, the early painters had not so much to unlearn as modern artists.

  • Women have to unlearn the false good manners of their slavery before they acquire the genuine good manners of their freedom.

  • And here labour has more to learn than ability; or perhaps it may be truer to say that socialism has given it more to unlearn.

  • Smithy was getting on very well, Thad thought, considering how much he had to "unlearn" in order to make a good scout.