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VERB
離開（某處或某人）
If you leave a place or person, you go away from that place or person.
例句
He would not be allowed to leave the country...
他可能會被禁止離開該國。
I simply couldn't bear to leave my little girl...
我就是受不了要離開我的小女兒。
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VERB
脫離；退出；辭去
If you leave an institution, group, or job, you permanently stop attending that institution, being a member of that group, or doing that job.
例句
He left school with no qualifications...
他沒有獲得任何學歷證書便離開了學校。
I am leaving to concentrate on writing fiction.
我辭職是為了專心寫小說。
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VERB
拋下，離棄（配偶）；離開（關系親密的人）
If you leave your husband, wife, or some other person with whom you have had a close relationship, you stop living with them or you finish the relationship.
例句
He'll never leave you. You need have no worry...
他不會離開你的，你不用擔心。
I would be insanely jealous if Bill left me for another woman.
要是比爾為了別的女人離開我，我會醋意大發。
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VERB
放下；丟下；把…交給
If you leave something or someone in a particular place, you let them remain there when you go away. If you leave something or someone with a person, you let them remain with that person so they are safe while you are away.
例句
I left my bags in the car...
我把包放在車里了。
Don't leave your truck there...
別把貨車停在那兒。
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VERB
留（信息、口信）
If you leave a message or an answer, you write it, record it, or give it to someone so that it can be found or passed on.
例句
You can leave a message on our answering machine...
您可以在我們的答錄機上留言。
Decide whether the ball is in square A, B, C, or D, then call and leave your answer...
選定球放在A、B、C、D哪個方格，然后打電話來，留下您的答案。
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VERB
剩下，留下（某人做某事）
If you leave someone doing something, they are doing that thing when you go away from them.
例句
Salter drove off, leaving Callendar surveying the scene.
索爾特開車走了，剩下卡倫德勘查現場。
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VERB
聽任（某人做某事）；聽（某人）自便
If you leave someone to do something, you go away from them so that they do it on their own. If you leave someone to himself or herself, you go away from them and allow them to be alone.
例句
I'd better leave you to get on with it, then...
那我還是讓你一個人接著干吧。
Diana took the hint and left them to it...
戴安娜會意，任由他們自己去解決。
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VERB
留出（一定的量）備用
To leave an amount of something means to keep it available after the rest has been used or taken away.
例句
He always left a little food for the next day...
他總是留下一點兒食物第二天吃。
Double rooms at any of the following hotels should leave you some change from ￡150.
以下任何一間酒店的雙人房價格都不到150英鎊。
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VERB
（數目相減后）剩余，余下
If you take one number away from another, you can say that it leaves the number that remains. For example, five take away two leaves three.
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VERB
（尤指把令人不快或困難的事）留給，扔給（某人）
To leave someone with something, especially when that thing is unpleasant or difficult to deal with, means to make them have it or make them responsible for it.
例句
...a crash which left him with a broken collarbone...
造成他鎖骨骨折的車禍
He left me with a child to support.
他扔下我獨自拉扯一個孩子。
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VERB
招致；造成
If an event leaves people or things in a particular state, they are in that state when the event has finished.
例句
...violent disturbances which have left at least ten people dead...
造成至少10人死亡的暴亂
The documentary left me in a state of shock...
那部紀錄片使我大為震驚。
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VERB
（常指因不喜歡而）不碰（食物或飲料）
If you leave food or drink, you do not eat or drink it, often because you do not like it.
例句
If you don't like the cocktail you ordered, just leave it and try a different one.
你要是不喜歡你要的雞尾酒，就別喝了，要點別的吧。
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VERB
留下（痕跡、影響等）
If something leaves a mark, effect, or sign, it causes that mark, effect, or sign to remain as a result.
例句
A muscle tear will leave a scar after healing...
肌肉撕裂復原后會留下疤痕。
She left a lasting impression on him.
她給他留下了難以忘懷的印象。
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VERB
使處于（某個狀態或位置）
If you leave something in a particular state, position, or condition, you let it remain in that state, position, or condition.
例句
He left the album open on the table...
他把相冊攤在桌上沒收。
I've left the car lights on...
我沒把車燈關掉。
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VERB
（有意）留出（空間）
If you leave a space or gap in something, you deliberately make that space or gap.
例句
Leave a gap at the top and bottom so air can circulate.
上下各留一個口子通風。
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VERB
把（工作）交托；把（決定或選擇權）留交
If you leave a job, decision, or choice to someone, you give them the responsibility for dealing with it or making it.
例句
Affix the blue airmail label and leave the rest to us...
貼上藍色的空郵標簽，其余的事情交給我們。
The judge should not have left it to the jury to decide...
法官本不該把案子交給陪審團來裁定。
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VERB
（安排、協議等很大程度上）視乎，取決于
If you say that something such as an arrangement or an agreement leaves a lot to another thing or person, you are critical of it because it is not adequate and its success depends on the other thing or person.
例句
The ceasefire leaves a lot to the goodwill of the forces involved...
停火協議的執行很大程度取決于各方武裝力量的意愿。
It's a vague formulation that leaves much to the discretion of local authorities.
這只是個模糊的構想，許多方面還要由地方當局來定奪。
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VERB
限制（某人于某一行動或機會）
To leave someone with a particular course of action or the opportunity to do something means to let it be available to them, while restricting them in other ways.
例句
This left me only one possible course of action...
這樣我只有一條路可走。
He was left with no option but to resign.
他除了辭職外別無選擇。
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VERB
擱延（至某一時刻）
If you leave something until a particular time, you delay doing it or dealing with it until then.
例句
Don't leave it all until the last minute.
不要把什么都拖到最后一分鐘。
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VERB
擱下，轉換（話題）
If you leave a particular subject, you stop talking about it and start discussing something else.
例句
I think we'd better leave the subject of Nationalism...
我看我們最好還是擱下民族主義這個話題吧。
He suggested we get together for a drink sometime. I said I'd like that, and we left it there.
他建議我們找個時間出來喝一杯。我說好，然后我們就換了個話題。
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VERB
（死后）遺留
If you leave property or money to someone, you arrange for it to be given to them after you have died.
例句
He died two and a half years later, leaving everything to his wife.
他于兩年半后去世，把所有遺產都留給了妻子。
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VERB
（身后）留下（配偶或孩子）
If you say that someone leaves a wife, husband, or a particular number of children, you mean that the wife, husband, or children remain alive after that person has died.
例句
It is for his humanity as much as his music that his numerous friends and pupils will remember him. He leaves a wife, son and daughter.
他的仁愛精神，以及他的音樂，都將長留在無數友人和學生的記憶里。他身后遺下妻子和一對兒女。
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N-UNCOUNT
假期；休假
Leave is a period of time when you are not working at your job, because you are on holiday or vacation, or for some other reason. If you are on leave, you are not working at your job.
例句
Why don't you take a few days' leave?
你為什么不休幾天假？
...maternity leave...
產假
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N-UNCOUNT
準許；許可
If you ask for leave to do something, you ask for permission to do it.
例句
...an application for leave to appeal against the judge's order.
不服法官指令的上訴申請
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PHRASE
聽…自便；隨…去；不打擾
If you leave someone or something alone, or if you leave them be, you do not pay them any attention or bother them.
例句
Some people need to confront a traumatic past; others find it better to leave it alone...
有人需要直面過去的創傷，有人則覺得不去想它為妙。
Why can't you leave him be?
你就不能不管他？
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PREP-PHRASE
姑莫論；擱置一旁
You use leaving aside or leaving to one side when mentioning a fact or detail that you want to ignore when making a general statement.
例句
Leaving aside the question of privacy, constant surveillance can be remarkably convenient.
如果不去管隱私問題的話，實施不間斷監視其實是非常便利的。
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PHRASE
告別；辭別
When you take your leave or take leave of someone, you say goodbye and go.
例句
He thanked them for the pleasure of their company and took his leave.
他感謝他們的愉快陪伴，然后道別走了。
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PHRASE
不要弄巧成拙；不要沒事找事
If someone tells you to leave well alone, they are telling you not to interfere in something, because it is all right as it is and you might only make it worse.
例句
He knew when to leave well alone and when to interfere.
他知道什么時候該適可而止，什么時候該插手干預。
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PHRASE
（從…）中斷之處，停止之處
If something continues from where it left off, it starts happening again at the point where it had previously stopped.
例句
As soon as the police disappear the violence will take up from where it left off.
警察一走，暴力事件就會死灰復燃。