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leave

英 [liːv] 美[liv]

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vt. 离开；留下；遗忘；委托
vi. 离开，出发；留下
n. 许可，同意；休假

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In her search to live a life of purpose, Leah left her high-paying accounting job, her husband, and her home.

Even in the age of open-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.

Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot.

A tour boat turned o v e r o f f t h e c o a s t o f Nicaragua, killing at least 13 people and leaving more passengers missing, official said.

Such moves may eliminate the fears of those living in the exporting countries, but they are creating panic in importing countries that must rely on what is then left for export.

The wide majority of the rest were illegal, unforced entries that resulted from something like a window being left open.

But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay decisions regarding employees were simply left up to their employers, as is the custom in virtually every other industry.

On Sunday, the castle’s owner John Gordon, 76, was forced to move out his property after the River Dee swept away about 60 feet of land, leaving the castle dangerously close to the river, according to the Scottish Daily Record.

A part-time job is a good way to balance costs while ensuring there is enough time left over for both academic subjects and after-class activities.

Why not instead think of learning as if it were food—something so valuable to humans that they have evolved to experience it as a pleasure?Joy should not be trained out of children or left for after-school programs.

When it's five o'clock, people leave their office.

They leave when the clock tells them they're done.

Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink ( ' , 眨眼 ) of an eye? Doesn't a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters? But I'll leave the economics to the experts.

Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right.

"A balanced breakfast is really helpful, but getting regular meals throughout the day is more important to leave blood sugar stable through the day, which helps control weight and hunger levels," says Elder.

And,on top of that, I'd specifically asked if I could leave early last Friday as I'd done a lot of overtime during the week.

But I'll leave the economics to the experts.

I leave it to the reader's political preference to decide which, if any, charges should stick.

If you like, you can leave your bags with the porter.

In a three-stage life, people leave university at the same time and the same age, they tend to start their careers and family at the same age, they proceed through middle management all roughly the same time, and then move into retirement within a few yea

It lets him leave his royal duties on the ground and fully focus on something else.

On the first of January, new regulations will come into effect which eliminate an annual leave bonus for people who put off marrying until the age of 23 for women and 25 for men, the South China Morning Post reports.

People do beautiful work and leave beautiful messages.

The surest way to kill it is to leave it alone.

Well, I was going to leave right away.

When the mice were hungry, they opted to leave the company of other mice to go get food.

Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.

The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

The U.S. trails far behind every wealthy nation and many developing ones that have family-friendly work policies including paid parental leave, paid sick days and breast-feeding support, according to a 2007 study.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.

"I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says.

"I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says. "All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road

Be sure to attend all classes and leave enough time to finish assignments and prepare well for examinations.

Now, we don't want to leave you with the impression that these three components always work together perfectly.

Such difficult economic times may leave many adolescents confused about their roles in society.

The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

A six-month trial will be introduced at Holborn station from mid-April, eliminating the rule of standing on the right and walking on the left.

A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison.

According to London underground, only 40 percent of travelers walk the full length of long escalators, leaving the majority at the bottom as they wait to get on to the "standing "side.

After a while she seemed content to leave her husband over at the cemetery.

After de-layering in this way, a company may be left with just a top level of senior managers, front-line managers and employees with direct contact with the public.

Aggressive wildfire control has left California forests crowded with small trees that compete with big trees for resources.

Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction, with only a few elderly speakers left.

Besides, the professor might leave after ten minutes, which would make your trip a total loss.

Applying my own rule, I determined to write them in alphabetical, never letting myself leave out a tough idea.

As they left student life behind, many had a last drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and moved out of small apartments into high buildings.

Benjamin would leave his home shortly.

But in all, only 150 cans will be used up over the cat's lifetime-and we'll still have 100 left over for the next cat.

But sometimes it seems too hard to leave the sofa.

But soon after retirement, the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes become as boring as the jobs they left.

By opening a novel, I can leave behind my burdens and enter into a wonderful and mysterious world where I am now a new character.

By the time the group got up to leave, it was pouring outside.

Even president obama's mother-in-law, marian Robinson, has agreed to leave Chicago and into the White House to help care for her granddaughters.

Five minutes after he arrived, he had an emergency call and left.

Fortunately, after a brief stay in hospital, Ben was well enough to be allowed to leave and later the family met up for dinner.

From the teacher's point of view, children should be left to decide what to read and how to read.

Go and leave your luggage in your rooms.

He had to leave the trail to get around them.

He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby for other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what was left.

He then took the wallet to a nearby police station after leaving a note behind to let the owner know it was safe.

He thought that joe must be dead, but he didn't want to leave immediately.

He unfortunately passed away last year due to his cancer, but he left a deep impression on me and gave me the inspiration to pick up my pen again.

However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn't have much money.

I could have left it in the supermarket yesterday, but I'm not sure.

I could only have left it on the G9 bus, which was now speeding in the dark to some unknown station.

I didn't hear the bell, or I would have left earlier.

I grew anxious: what if the family had simply left the cat behind?

I guess it's worth leaving my car at home.

I left for the land of warmth and Vitamin C, thinking of beaches and orange trees.

I left my seat quietly, giving him some privacy to finish his conversation.

I need to talk about my new program with him before he leaves.

I thought anything abstract left too much room for argument.

If the monkeys touched the left side of the screen they would be rewarded with seven drops of water or juice; if they went for the circle, they would be rewarded with the sum of the numbers—17 in this example.

If we go somewhere and I ask him to leave the phone at home, he suffers from withdrawal symptoms.

If you leave your arms out, they float free in zero gravity, often giving a sleeping astronaut the look of a funny ballet dancer.

If you studied pictures that ancient people left on rock walls and you tried to determine their meaning, you would not detect a deep interest in romance among the artists.

In a fire drill, the students should shut the door and leave at once.

In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze that mirrors our fear of the dark.

It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out.

It had also given me a choice, either to leave that page blank or to keep writing the story with hope.

Just as I got to the school gate, I realised I had left my book in the cafe.

Learn skills and leave with modern and unusual textiles.

Leave it open when you're available to talk and close it when you're not.

Leaving aside the birth rate issue, India's economy may take off when the country achieves of educational opportunity.

Leaving the less important things until tomorrow is often acceptable.

Like the two little girls growing up at the White House, we made our own beds no one left the house until that was doneand picked up after ourselves.

Many graphs, including bar graphs and line graphs, have two axes that form a corner, usually these axes are the left side and the bottom of the graph.

Material thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a partly written book.

Maybe you leave a habit that is driving your family crazy.

Members leave books on park benches and buses, in train stations and coffee shops.

My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack alone.

Nicholas left Grylls a very deep impression because he did the right things in the dangerous situation.

No sooner did she leave my doorstep than I had emails from two women whose kids go to my son's nursery and who recognized my face.

One day, the bombing stopped and the soldiers left.

Only when lily walked into the office did she realize that she had left the contract at home.

Our flight leaves at 11:00 a.m., so they should pick us up between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m.

Papa, as a son of a dirt-poor farmer, left school early and went to work in a factory, for education was for the rich then.

People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of it.

Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad.

She left before I could even make it to the door to offer my thanks.

She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left.

So, we're leaving on Monday from Hosfield International airport, and returning on Friday.

Someone had left a note under their door during the night.

Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods.

Studies have shown that the right and left ear process sound differently.

That is, we will leave the camp on August 7th.

The biggest mistake I made, uh, was leaving college in my last year and not competing my education.

The biggest mistake I made, uh, was leaving college in my last year and not competing my.

The city was crowded with disappointed people with no interest in settling down, and when they heard there were new gold discoveries in alaska, they left dawson city as quickly as they had come.

The explosion had left a hole more than forty miles across—much too huge to be seen from anywhere at ground level.

The gap-year phenomenon originated with the months left over to oxbridge applicants between entrance exams in november and the start of the next academic year.

The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty papers left.

The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it.

Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can that had been left out on the footpath.

Then the person leaves it in a public place, hoping that the book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it.

These are volcanoes so explosive that they burst open in a single big crack, leaving behind a vast hole, the caldera.

They arrive at the class in low spirits and they leave with a smile.

They come to camp, wanting to know what it is like to be an astronaut or a pilot, and they leave with real-world applications for what they're studying in the classroom.

They ignore the appointed time and leave their homes only after the fixed time.

This has many implications well beyond the role that parents seem to play in the lives of their children who have left for college.

This meant, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, dragging his heavy instrument case across the campus to the pitying looks of the non-musicians he had left behind.

This newness just left me wanting more.

This upsets me to no end because while all the experts are busy debating about which option is been the people who want to improve their lives are left confused by all of the conflicting information.

To my mother, the poem revealed a parent's affection when her child grows up and leaves.

Video games can be a poor influence if left in the wrong hands.

We allow them to be left around because we've been ignorant of their value.

We have you arriving on the 16th of september and leaving the 24th of september — altogether, eight nights.

We’ll leave Bostonon June 20th, stay in St. Louis, Missouri for a week, and then flyto your city.

Whatever money was left over would be his to keep.

When his phone rang again later, he left his seat to answer it.

You know, she retired last year and I'm leaving for the university soon.

You left it by the phone.

Your flight back will leave at 5:00 pm, it gets back here at 6:30 pm.

The need of training is too evident; the pressure to accomplish a change in their attitude and habits is too urgent to leave these consequences wholly out of account.

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.

A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs.

Retail sales of food and drink in Europe’s largest markets are at a standstill, leaving European grocery retailers hungry for opportunities to grow.

The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one.

So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

Robert Willumstad left Citigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO.

Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running a company”.

McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run.

Third, they now dominate left-of-centre politics.

The company seems to have concluded that its reputation in Vermont is already so damaged that it has noting left to lose by going to war with the state.

The potential evolution of today's technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it's perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.

Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by the use of the humanities and social sciences as vehicles for publicizing “progressive,” or left- liberal propaganda.

But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.

Avoiding this rather than promoting it should unite the left and right of the political spectrum.

If left to themselves, such trends will diminish the relative strength of the English language in international education markets as the demand for educational resources in languages, such as Spanish ,Arabic or Mandarin grows and international business process outsourcing in other language such as Japanese, French and German, spreads.

With Britain voting to leave the European Union, and GDP already predicted to slow as a result, it is now a timely moment to assess what he was referring to.

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news breaks, even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.

finally, assuming you're lost in an area humans tend to frequent, look for the mark we leave on the landscape.

For women who stay home, they never get to leave the office.

Hagel says we have designed jobs in the U.S. that tend to be "tightly scripted" and "highly standardized" ones that leave no room for "individual initiative or creativity".

In limited respects, perhaps the recession will leave society better off.

like physical fights, verbal fights can leave both sides bloodied.

States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states.

The climate change we are hastening could one day leave us with forests that emit more carbon than they absorb.

While more families buck an older-generation proclivity to leave kids in the dark about real estate decisions, realty agents and psychologists have mixed views about the financial, personal and long-term effects kids'opinions may have.

with Britain voting to leave the European Union, and GDP already predicted to slow as a result, it is now a timely moment to assess what he was referring to.