词汇释义

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UK  /ˈek.strɪ.keɪt/ US  /ˈek.strɪ.keɪt/

1. verb, If you extricate yourself or another person from a difficult or serious situation, you free yourself or the other person from it.使摆脱，使脱离

2. verb, If you extricate someone or something from a place where they are trapped or caught, you succeed in freeing them.解救，救出

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外刊例句

1. “When I began my Ponzi scheme I believed it would end shortly and I would be able to extricate myself and my clients from the scheme.”(Reuters)

2. Mynaric, which said it hadn’t yet delivered any laser communication hardware to China, said it is ceasing business in China immediately and would start extricating itself from uncompleted transactions.(Seattle Times)

3. “There is disease related to diets heavily reliant on meat and genetically modified crops and monocropping. How do we extricate ourselves from that? It’s revolutionary.”(Washington Post)

4.This simple quest story serves as a counterpoint, a vision of female consciousness extricated from the pressure of endless facts.(The New Yorker)

5. From securing a federal guarantee to extricating the Treasury from its holdings, there is too much to do before the 2020 presidential election, analysts and housing experts said.(Reuters)

6. Katz, a Harvard physics major, said in a 2016 interview with The Washington Post that in the company’s early years, “we made some bad technology choices that took years to extricate ourselves from.”(Washington Post)

7. “We are drifting deeper into global problems from which we will struggle to extricate ourselves,” it added.(Seattle Times)

8. That’s only one symptom of the instability brought on by Britain’s floundering attempts to extricate itself from the European Union.(New York Times)

9. When I was a kid using social media for the first time, I was also in the process of extricating myself from an abuser.(New York Times)

10. It sold one, but was still extricating itself from Iberdrola, a power firm, at a steep loss.(TheEconomist)

11. The firms are trying to adjust, shrink and extricate themselves from unprofitable foreign ventures and to co-operate more with municipal power-producers.(TheEconomist)

12. Few in the financial sector, however, believe that Greece will be able to extricate itself from the current mess without help from other countries and the IMF.(The Guardian)

词汇搭配

extricate oneself from | extricate someone, something from

词汇家族

extricates, extricated, extricating, extricable, extrication

词汇来源

"disentangle, disengage, set free," 1610s, from Latin extricatus, past participle of extricare "disentangle," figuratively "clear up, unravel," perhaps from ex "out of" (see ex-) + tricae (plural) "perplexities, hindrances," which is of unknown origin.

近义词

clear, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, free, liberate, release, untangle, rescue, save

反义词

embroil, entangle, block, hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct,burden, encumber

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