解放jiěfàng 1.解除束缚,得到自由或发展{liberate; emancipate}: ～思想{emancipate thinking}|～生产力。{liberate the productive forces} 2.推翻反动统治,在我国特指1949年推翻国民党统治{liberation, esp. referring to China's liberation from the rule of the Kuomintang in 1949}: ～前{before liberation}|～那年我才15岁。{In the year of liberation, I was only 15 years old.}