emancipation
/ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃn/ (bre, ipa) · /ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃn/ (ame, ipa) · /i-ˌman(t)-sə-ˈpā-shən/ (ame, mw)
emancipation — 名詞
1. the act of making a person or group free in law or society, ending another perso
解放；脫監護
脫離壓迫、控制或法定監護
the act of making a person or group free in law or society, ending another person's control or an unjust system over them.
The new law brought emancipation to people who had been kept as slaves.
新法讓原本被當成奴隸的人獲得解放。
emancipation through a legal change
After the court order, Mina's emancipation gave her control of her own money.
法院命令生效後，Mina 脫離監護，開始自己管理金錢。
legal emancipation of a minor
Activists celebrated the emancipation of political prisoners in the capital square.
社運人士在首都廣場慶祝政治犯獲得解放。
For Jun, emancipation meant leaving his guardian's house and making his own choices.
對 Jun 來說，脫離監護意味著離開監護人的家，自己做決定。
Women's emancipation changed who could vote, study, and own property in the country.
女性解放改變了這個國家誰能投票、求學與擁有財產。
- liberation
more dramatic and often tied to oppression, war, or national struggle
- freedom
broader and more everyday; not always about a formal legal change
- independence
focuses more on self-rule or not relying on others than on being set free by law
- oppression
unfair control that emancipation brings to an end
- enslavement
the state of being treated as property or kept under total control
- subjugation
formal word for being forced under another power
文法句型
emancipation of + person/group
emancipation from + control
用法筆記
Usually appears in legal, political, or historical writing rather than everyday conversation. Common patterns are 'emancipation of + group' for collective freedom and 'emancipation from + control' for the power being removed.