adj.松的；宽松的；不确切的；不牢固的；放纵的
n.解放；放任；放纵
v.弄松；释放；放枪
adv.松散地
The screw worked itself loose and the door fell off the cupboard. 螺丝松了，门从橱柜上掉下来了。
She wore loose garments in the summer. 她在夏天穿宽松的衣服。
Loose labour regulations are one reason. 宽松的劳动规则是原因之一。
It is used these days in a very loose sense by a great many people. 现在,许多人用起它来是很不确切的。
She was branded a loose woman. 她被标为放纵的女人。
用作名词 (n.)Shake yourself loose from the accreted layers of presuppositions and assumptions that your profession has built up around the topic. 把自己从本专业对此所建立的厚厚预设和假定中解放出来。
I still think a lot about transportation -- you never loose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby. 我直到现在还想着很多有关交通的问题，你不要放任梦想，而要把它当作一种习惯去培育。
But if we leave, we loose it and I can't make an entire life disappear to start a new one. 可是如果我们走了，我们放纵它，我不能结束自己完整的生活去开始一段新的生活。
Things were not just lax, but loose, as though everyone but him had grown to accept the situation. 这里的事物已不能说是松懈，应该拿放纵来形容，好像除了他以外，每个人都渐渐接受了这个处境。
用作动词 (v.)Please help me loose the nail, It is rusty and won't come out of the wall. 请帮我把这个钉子弄松，它生锈了，拔不出来。
A chemical change has to take place before the energy can be let loose. 能量释放，必须有化学变化。
loose与loosen，lose的比较：loose作动词指“释放，放松”，作形容词指“宽松的”。loosen作动词，指“松开，解开”。lose是一个不规则动词，意为“丢失，遗失”。lose还常用来表示运动比赛中的“输”，且在主语为人时，不可使用被动语态。
