leeway

英 [ˈliːweɪ]

美 [ˈliːweɪ]

n.  自由活动的空间

GRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.19486 / COCA.15712

习惯用语

n.

make up leeway
• 摆脱逆境；（尤指）弥补损失的时间
  to get out of a bad position that you are in, especially because you have lost a lot of time

牛津词典

noun

• 自由活动的空间
  the amount of freedom that you have to change sth or to do sth in the way you want to
  1. How much leeway should parents give their children?
     父母应该给孩子留多少自由的空间？

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 自由；自由空间；回旋余地
  Leewayis the freedom that someone has to take the action they want to or to change their plans.
  1. Rarely do schoolteachers have leeway to teach classes the way they want...
     鲜有学校老师可随心所欲地教书的情况。
  2. The President said that he wanted to give states more leeway to pursue their own health-care reforms.
     总统说他希望给各州更多的医疗改革空间。
• N-UNCOUNT （需要弥补的）失去时间，落后差距
  If you haveleewayto make up, you have to work hard because you do not have much time to reach a particular goal.
  1. He just could not make up the leeway from the earlier stages in which Ryan scored well.
     瑞安在前几轮得分很高，他现在再想赶也赶不上了。

英英释义

noun

• a permissible difference
  Synonym:allowancemargintolerance
• (of a ship or plane) sideways drift

双语例句

• Banks have a certain amount of leeway when reporting trading results.
  银行在公布交易业绩方面通常会有一定的回旋余地。
• This will give us more leeway.
  定上这样一条可以让我们的时间充裕一点。
• She's been off school for a month, so she has a lot of leeway to make up.
  她一个月没上学了，有许多课业要补上。
• Give them a little leeway and wait for them to reply you and try again the next day or even the next week if you have the time to wait.
  给他们留一些余地，等待他们的回复，如果你实在没时间等了，第二天甚至第二个礼拜再试着联系他们。
• I hope you would leave us some leeway in terms of payment.
  我希望在付款条件方面你们能通融一些。
• This gives Mr. Zhang leeway to invest in private companies like Blue Moon, a Chinese consumer goods producer.
  这给张磊提供了空间，让他可以更方便地投资给私人公司，比如中国消费品生产商蓝月亮。
• German firms certainly have plenty of leeway, after practising wage restraint for the past decade.
  在过去十年实行的薪酬限制，让德国公司确信它们还有转圜的余地。
• England and Wales while also recognising entrapment as an offence, do leave some leeway for the prosecution.
  英格兰和威尔士都认为钓鱼执法属违法行为，但也给原告留了余地。
• And after frenzied lobbying, US accounting regulators generously gave banks far more leeway over how they should price "toxic" assets on their balance sheets.
  而且，在热火朝天的游说之后，美国会计准则监管机构对银行估价资产负债表上“有毒”资产的方式，慷慨地给予了更宽松的选择余地。
• The debate over how much leeway to give private aid groups is an important one for China.
  在中国，有关应该给民间援助团体留下多大活动余地的问题受到热烈讨论。