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

• Give free rein to your imagination.
  你可以完全自由地运用你的想像力。
• He gave his army free rein to crush rebels.
  他放手让他的军队消灭叛军。
• The National Party, the junior partner in Australia's coalition government, draws much of its support from the countryside and is particularly reluctant to give free rein to the water market.
  在澳大利亚联合政府中处于较低地位的国家党从农村地区获得了很大支持，因此，它极其不情愿为水交易市场亮绿灯。
• 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”。
• 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。
• Drug traffickers once had free rein in Tamaulipas, which borders Texas and the Gulf Coast& the home base for the Gulf cartel.
  走私毒贩在位于德克萨斯州和墨西哥湾分界处的塔毛利帕斯曾经完全来去自由&这儿是贩毒集团的总部。
• She gave them free rein to change the kitchen, though.
  不过，她允许他们自由改装厨房。
• The government continued to believe it should give free rein to the private sector in transport.
  政府仍然认为应该给予交通领域的私营企业以经营自由。
• 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。
• 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。