Picture a rope caught around a branch. You cannot free it by pulling harder; you have to work it loose, turn by turn, until it comes away. That is the whole word. Something is holding on, and getting out takes patient effort — which is why extricate almost always arrives with from, and very often with yourself.
可以想成一條繩子纏在樹枝上。用力拉沒有用，得一圈一圈把它解開，才抽得出來。extricate 整個字就是這個畫面。有東西抓著你，而出來這件事要花力氣、要有耐心。所以它幾乎一定帶著 from，也很常帶著反身代名詞 yourself。這也解釋了它為什麼聽起來比 leave、escape 都重：它不只說你出來了，還說你是從纏住的狀態裡被解出來的。
From the word’s history
The source records extricate as borrowed from Latin extricatus, the past participle of extrico, and points the reader to compare intricate.
來源說這個字借自拉丁文 extrīcō，extrīcātus 是它的過去分詞，並要我們對照 intricate。這兩個字在來源裡被放在一起，剛好給學習者一個很好用的對照：intricate 是纏成一團，extricate 則是從那一團裡出來。
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