leaving

1. VERB 离开（某处或某人）
   If you leave a place or person, you go away from that place or person.
   1. He would not be allowed to leave the country...
      他可能会被禁止离开该国。
   2. I simply couldn't bear to leave my little girl...
      我就是受不了要离开我的小女儿。
   3. My flight leaves in less than an hour...
      我乘坐的航班一小时内起飞。
   4. The last of the older children had left for school.
      年龄较大的几个孩子中，最后一个也已经上学去了。
2. VERB 脱离；退出；辞去
   If you leave an institution, group, or job, you permanently stop attending that institution, being a member of that group, or doing that job.
   1. He left school with no qualifications...
      他没有获得任何学历证书便离开了学校。
   2. I am leaving to concentrate on writing fiction.
      我辞职是为了专心写小说。
   3. ...a leaving present.
      告别礼物
3. VERB 抛下，离弃（配偶）；离开（关系亲密的人）
   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.
   1. He'll never leave you. You need have no worry...
      他不会离开你的，你不用担心。
   2. I would be insanely jealous if Bill left me for another woman.
      要是比尔为了别的女人离开我，我会醋意大发。
4. VERB 放下；丢下；把…交给
   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.
   1. I left my bags in the car...
      我把包放在车里了。
   2. Don't leave your truck there...
      别把货车停在那儿。
   3. From the moment that Philippe had left her in the bedroom at the hotel, she had heard nothing of him...
      自菲利普把她独自丢在酒店房间后，她就再也没有听到他的消息了。
   4. Leave your key with a neighbour in case you lock yourself out one day.
      给邻居留把钥匙，以防有朝一日把自己反锁在外面。
5. 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.
   1. You can leave a message on our answering machine...
      您可以在我们的答录机上留言。
   2. Decide whether the ball is in square A, B, C, or D, then call and leave your answer...
      选定球放在A、B、C、D哪个方格，然后打电话来，留下您的答案。
   3. I left my phone number with several people.
      我把电话号码留给了几个人。
6. 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.
   1. Salter drove off, leaving Callendar surveying the scene.
      索尔特开车走了，剩下卡伦德勘查现场。
7. VERB 听任（某人做某事）；听（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.
   1. I'd better leave you to get on with it, then...
      那我还是让你一个人接着干吧。
   2. Diana took the hint and left them to it...
      戴安娜会意，任由他们自己去解决。
   3. One of the advantages of a department store is that you are left to yourself to try things on...
      逛百货公司的其中一个优势是顾客可自行试穿衣服。
   4. He quietly slipped away and left me to my tears.
      他悄悄溜走了，独剩我一人落泪。
8. VERB 留出（一定的量）备用
   To leave an amount of something means to keep it available after the rest has been used or taken away.
   1. He always left a little food for the next day...
      他总是留下一点儿食物第二天吃。
   2. Double rooms at any of the following hotels should leave you some change from £150.
      以下任何一间酒店的双人房价格都不到150英镑。
9. （数目相减后）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.
10. VERB （尤指把令人不快或困难的事）留给，扔给（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.
    1. ...a crash which left him with a broken collarbone...
       造成他锁骨骨折的车祸
    2. He left me with a child to support.
       他扔下我独自拉扯一个孩子。
11. 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.
    1. ...violent disturbances which have left at least ten people dead...
       造成至少10人死亡的暴乱
    2. The documentary left me in a state of shock...
       那部纪录片使我大为震惊。
    3. So where does that leave me?
       那么我的境况又会如何呢？
12. VERB （常指因不喜欢而）不碰（食物或饮料）
    If you leave food or drink, you do not eat or drink it, often because you do not like it.
    1. If you don't like the cocktail you ordered, just leave it and try a different one.
       你要是不喜欢你要的鸡尾酒，就别喝了，要点别的吧。
13. VERB 留下（痕迹、影响等）
    If something leaves a mark, effect, or sign, it causes that mark, effect, or sign to remain as a result.
    1. A muscle tear will leave a scar after healing...
       肌肉撕裂复原后会留下疤痕。
    2. She left a lasting impression on him.
       她给他留下了难以忘怀的印象。
14. VERB 使处于（某个状态或位置）
    If you leave something in a particular state, position, or condition, you let it remain in that state, position, or condition.
    1. He left the album open on the table...
       他把相册摊在桌上没收。
    2. I've left the car lights on...
       我没把车灯关掉。
    3. I left the engine running.
       我动机一直开着。
15. VERB （有意）留出（空间）
    If you leave a space or gap in something, you deliberately make that space or gap.
    1. Leave a gap at the top and bottom so air can circulate.
       上下各留一个口子通风。
16. VERB 把（工作）交托；把（决定或选择权）留交
    If you leave a job, decision, or choice to someone, you give them the responsibility for dealing with it or making it.
    1. Affix the blue airmail label and leave the rest to us...
       贴上蓝色的空邮标签，其余的事情交给我们。
    2. The judge should not have left it to the jury to decide...
       法官本不该把案子交给陪审团来裁定。
    3. For the moment, I leave you to take all decisions.
       我把决定权暂时全交给你。
17. VERB （安排、协议等很大程度上）视乎，取决于
    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.
    1. The ceasefire leaves a lot to the goodwill of the forces involved...
       停火协议的执行很大程度取决于各方武装力量的意愿。
    2. It's a vague formulation that leaves much to the discretion of local authorities.
       这只是个模糊的构想，许多方面还要由地方当局来定夺。
18. VERB 限制（某人于某一行动或机会）
    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.
    1. This left me only one possible course of action...
       这样我只有一条路可走。
    2. He was left with no option but to resign.
       他除了辞职外别无选择。
19. VERB 搁延（至某一时刻）
    If you leave something until a particular time, you delay doing it or dealing with it until then.
    1. Don't leave it all until the last minute.
       不要把什么都拖到最后一分钟。
20. VERB 搁下，转换（话题）
    If you leave a particular subject, you stop talking about it and start discussing something else.
    1. I think we'd better leave the subject of Nationalism...
       我看我们最好还是搁下民族主义这个话题吧。
    2. He suggested we get together for a drink sometime. I said I'd like that, and we left it there.
       他建议我们找个时间出来喝一杯。我说好，然后我们就换了个话题。
21. VERB （死后）遗留
    If you leave property or money to someone, you arrange for it to be given to them after you have died.
    1. He died two and a half years later, leaving everything to his wife.
       他于两年半后去世，把所有遗产都留给了妻子。
22. 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.
    1. 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.
       他的仁爱精神，以及他的音乐，都将长留在无数友人和学生的记忆里。他身后遗下妻子和一对儿女。
23. 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.
    1. Why don't you take a few days' leave?
       你为什么不休几天假？
    2. ...maternity leave...
       产假
    3. He is home on leave from the Navy.
       他从海军部队休假回到家里。
24. N-UNCOUNT 准许；许可
    If you ask for leave to do something, you ask for permission to do it.
    1. ...an application for leave to appeal against the judge's order.
       不服法官指令的上诉申请
25. See also: left
26. PHRASE 听…自便；随…去；不打扰
    If you leave someone or something alone, or if you leave them be, you do not pay them any attention or bother them.
    1. Some people need to confront a traumatic past; others find it better to leave it alone...
       有人需要直面过去的创伤，有人则觉得不去想它为妙。
    2. Why can't you leave him be?
       你就不能不管他？
27. PREP-PHRASE 姑莫论；搁置一旁
    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.
    1. Leaving aside the question of privacy, constant surveillance can be remarkably convenient.
       如果不去管隐私问题的话，实施不间断监视其实是非常便利的。
28. PHRASE 告别；辞别
    When you take your leave or take leave of someone, you say goodbye and go.
    1. He thanked them for the pleasure of their company and took his leave.
       他感谢他们的愉快陪伴，然后道别走了。
29. PHRASE 不要弄巧成拙；不要没事找事
    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.
    1. He knew when to leave well alone and when to interfere.
       他知道什么时候该适可而止，什么时候该插手干预。
30. PHRASE （从…）中断之处，停止之处
    If something continues from where it left off, it starts happening again at the point where it had previously stopped.
    1. As soon as the police disappear the violence will take up from where it left off.
       警察一走，暴力事件就会死灰复燃。
31. to leave a lot to be desired → see: desire

1. I'll be leaving town in a few weeks
   过几周我就离开城里了。
2. It's not right, leaving her like this
   就这样离开她是不对的。
3. I wasn't willing to accept that her leaving was a possibility.
   我不愿接受她有可能离开的事实。
4. She's leaving the day after tomorrow.
   她打算后天离开。
5. Before leaving, he went into his office to fill in the daily time sheet.
   离开前，他到自己的办公室填写了日常考勤表。
6. The rebels fled into the mountains, leaving behind their weapons and supplies
   叛军丢下武器和给养，逃进了山里。
7. He came to Saudi Arabia, leaving behind his wife and their three children.
   他抛下妻子和三个孩子来到了沙特阿拉伯。
8. Then Louise broke the news that she was leaving me
   然后路易丝挑明了她要离开我。
9. He made the mistake of leaving his valuable record collection with a former girlfriend.
   他犯了一个错误，把自己收藏的一批珍贵唱片留在了以前的一个女友那里。
10. He was booked on a flight leaving that day, but that was just a decoy.
    他订了那天起飞的航班，但那不过是个诱饵。
11. Her husband was in the doghouse for leaving her to cope on her own.
    她丈夫因让她独自应付把她惹毛了。
12. I feel so guilty, leaving all this to you
    把这些事都留给你去做，我真感到过意不去。
13. He hesitates before leaving, almost as though he had been hoping for conversation
    他离开前有些犹豫，几乎像是他一直期望能够交谈点什么。
14. With characteristic impetuosity, he announced he was leaving school.
    一贯性急冲动的他又宣布要退学了。
15. He died two and a half years later, leaving everything to his wife.
    他于两年半后去世，把所有遗产都留给了妻子。
16. We hear of women who run away, leaving behind their homes and families.
    我们听说有女人离家出走，扔下了家人不管。
17. The film company collapsed, leaving Chris jobless and minus his life savings.
    电影公司垮了，克里斯没了工作，也失去了他一生的积蓄。
18. She told me she was not so much leaving her job as it was leaving her.
    她告诉我，与其说是她辞了工作，不如说是工作辞了她。
19. On leaving, she paused for a moment at the door
    离开时，她在门口停顿了一下。
20. He gave reporters the slip by leaving at midnight.
    他在午夜时分离开，避开了记者的追踪。
21. Gone are the days when work was just a stopgap between leaving school and getting married
    工作曾经只是毕业和结婚之间的临时过渡，但这样的日子已经一去不复返了。
22. His father died when he was ten, leaving the family in straitened circumstances
    他10岁时父亲去世了，家里生活变得很拮据。
23. He went ashore leaving me to start repairing the torn sail.
    他上岸去了，留下我修理被撕破的船帆。
24. Our wedding had to tie in with David leaving the army
    我们的婚礼要和戴维退伍的时间吻合。
25. She went out, leaving Rachel to undress and have her shower
    她出去了，留下雷切尔一个人除衣淋浴。
26. I avoided meeting her by leaving by the back door.
    我从后门离去以免和她相见。
27. When are we leaving?
    咱们多咱走？
28. The host went off, leaving them out in the cold.
    主人走了，把他们干在这儿了。
29. I'm leaving right now.
    我这就走。
30. Are you leaving right away?
    你马上就走吗？

noun

1. the act of departing

   Synonym:    departuregoinggoing away