unpack

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack. transitive
    — They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner.
  2. To empty containers that had been packed. intransitive
    — They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
  3. To analyze a concept or a text; to explain. figuratively,transitive
    — There may be another argument here, if we had time to unpack it, about modernism and the rise of the middle classes.
  4. To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments. intransitive
    — The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/ə] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, […]
  5. To decompress (data). transitive
    — Packages […] are often archived and compressed using the zip utility; you can unpack these with the unzip command[…]

词形变化

unpacks present,singular,third-person unpacking participle,present unpacked participle,past unpacked past

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反义词

词源

From Middle English unpakken, equivalent to un- + pack. Compare Saterland Frisian uutpakje (“to unpack”), West Frisian útpakke (“to unpack”), Dutch uitpakken (“to unpack”), German auspacken (“to unpack”).
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