(noun.) the act of making something less tight.

整理:塞爾瓦托

• In these later days there is in fact, a decided loosening in the creed. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• The sides are then run through lime vats for the purpose of loosening the hair. 佚名. 神奇的知識(shí)之書.
• It may have been a signal for loosening the general tongue. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
• He let her get some distance, then, loosening his limbs, he went after her. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• And now, indeed, I felt as if my last anchor were loosening its hold, and I should soon be driving with the winds and waves. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 遠(yuǎn)大前程.
• I saw him, while I was detained by the loosening of a girth, struggling with the upward path, seemingly more difficult than any we had yet passed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個(gè)人.
• It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening--the fall. 伊麗莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.

校對(duì):萊利亞