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单词 to run free
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to run free
b. Of an animal: not kept shut up, fenced in, or on a restraint; allowed to roam or range at will. Frequently in to run free, roam free.
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c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xii. 250 Godes foules and hus free bestes.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxix. 4 Who letteth the wilde asse go fre, or who lowseth the bondes of the Moole?
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 388 Their Steeds around, Free from their Harness, graze the flow'ry Ground.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. ix. 153 The dogs with eager yell Are struggling to be free.
1844 A. B. Welby Poems (1867) 35 The round blue heaven is all thine own, O free and happy bird!
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 312 Deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered there by thousands.
1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree viii. 103 What was there to compare with the joy of working a young horse you had broken in yourself, and had known from the time it ran free and wild in the meadow?
1958 S. Plath Jrnl. 23 July (2000) 252 Occasionally they passed a herd of black bulls, roaming free and grazing at will on the open plains.
2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Mar. d2/4 One American tried to circulate a petition demanding a leash law to keep dogs from running free on the beach.
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