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

• The military men will be left some leeway to choose the exact time for attack.
  将留有一定自由度让作战人员来选择进攻的确切时间。
• 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。
• The train was late, and we had an hour's leeway to make up.
  火车晚点了，我们得把1小时的损失时间补上。
• Without an agreement, the antitrust laws allow manufacturers substantial leeway in selecting the dealers with whom they deal.
  若不存在协定，反托拉斯法允许制造商有实质性区别地选择其愿意与之交易的代理商。
• 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。
• These will give banks more leeway in how they value certain assets whose prices have plunged.
  这将使银行在为某些价格大幅下跌的资产估价时有更大的回旋余地。
• Germany should allow the European Central Bank greater leeway to intervene in the secondary bond markets.
  德国应该赋予欧洲央行（ecb）在干预债券二级市场上更大的自主权。
• 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。
• This means keeping the goals largely the same but giving firms and their auditors more leeway in achieving them.
  这意味着保持目标不变但是给予公司及其审计人员更多的回旋余地来实现这一目标。
• To give themselves more leeway, bigger developers have turned away from fickle onshore financing to international bond markets.
  为了给自己多一些灵活应对的余地，大的房产开放商已经从不稳定的境内融资转向了国际证券市场。