请先看其英文含义——

根据剑桥词典：

a situation in which two or more activities are separated, or do not develop in the same way:

He proposed the decoupling of the company's tobacco operations from the rest of the corporation.

根据Investopedia:

In financial markets, decoupling occurs when the returns of one asset class diverge from their expected or normal pattern of correlation with others. Decoupling thus takes place when different asset classes that typically rise and fall together start to move in opposite directions, such as one increasing and the other decreasing.

One example might be seen with oil and natural gas prices, which typically rise and fall together. Decoupling would happen if oil moves in one direction while natural gas moves in the opposite direction.

根据牛津词典，decoupling指“两种或两种以上活动分离开来或以不同方式发展的情况”(a situation in which two or more activities are separated, or do not develop in the same way)，通常被称作“脱钩”。该词是decouple的变形，后者源于法语découpler，字面意思为“使分开、分离”，也可指物理运动（如核爆炸）中震波的减弱。

另外，uncouple也有“脱离关系”的意思，二者的区别在哪里呢？简单来说，uncouple表示客观上解除二者之间的关系，比如，夫妻或情侣分手，可以用they are going through the process of uncoupling表示，之后，二者之间就没有关系了。或者， uncouple the two railroad cars（使两节火车车厢分离）。而decouple表达的意思要更复杂一些，比如使行业协会与行政机关脱钩，这里的脱钩不是简单脱离关系那么简单，还涉及到各种复杂的事务流程。

双语例句

1.

“这种被称为‘脱钩’(decoupling)的行动是一些人的主要目标，他们认为世界已变得过于依赖中国这个制造业巨头。”

“The move, known as decoupling, is a major goal of those who believe the world has grown far too dependent on China as a manufacturing giant. ”

2.

In 2010, she was fully responsible for and successfully completed the separation and independent operation of the decoupling between Shengda College of Economics, Business & Management of Zhengzhou University and Zhengzhou University. In March 2016, she was responsible for and successfully completed the set-up and the fulfilment of the teaching conditions for the teaching evaluation of Zhengzhou Shengda University of Economics, Business & Management required by the Ministry of Education.

2010年，全面负责郑州大学升达经贸管理学院与郑州大学脱钩独立转设事宜并顺利完成；2016年3月，负责郑州升达经贸管理学院迎接教育部教学评估之教学条件建设工作并圆满完成。

相关法条：

国家发改委、民政部、中央组织部等在内的10部门于6月14日发布《关于全面推开行业协会商会与行政机关脱钩改革的实施意见》，就全面推开行业协会商会与行政机关脱钩改革提出意见。

The decoupling reform was first advanced in July 2015 after the general plan was issued. In three pilot programs over the following three years, 422 national associations and 5,318 provincial industrial associations were decoupled from administrative organs, which account for more than 50 percent of the overall industrial associations.

脱钩改革总体方案于2015年7月提出，在之后的三年中推出了三批试点，共有422家全国性协会和5318家省级协会实现与行政机关脱钩，均超过应脱钩协会总数的50%。