Leave是什么意思

If you leave a place or person, you go away from that place or person.

If you leave an institution, group, or job, you permanently stop attending that institution, being a member of that group, or doing that job.

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.

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.

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.

If you leave someone doing something, they are doing that thing when you go away from them.

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.

To leave an amount of something means to keep it available after the rest has been used or taken away.

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.

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.

If an event leaves people or things in a particular state, they are in that state when the event has finished.

If you leave food or drink, you do not eat or drink it, often because you do not like it.

If something leaves a mark, effect, or sign, it causes that mark, effect, or sign to remain as a result.

If you leave something in a particular state, position, or condition, you let it remain in that state, position, or condition.

If you leave a space or gap in something, you deliberately make that space or gap.

If you leave a job, decision, or choice to someone, you give them the responsibility for dealing with it or making it.

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.

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.

If you leave something until a particular time, you delay doing it or dealing with it until then.

If you leave a particular subject, you stop talking about it and start discussing something else.

If you leave property or money to someone, you arrange for it to be given to them after you have died.

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.

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.

If you ask for leave to do something, you ask for permission to do it.

If you leave someone or something alone, or if you leave them be, you do not pay them any attention or bother them.

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.

When you take your leave or take leave of someone, you say goodbye and go.

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.

If something continues from where it left off, it starts happening again at the point where it had previously stopped.