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

• 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。
• 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。
• This gives greater leeway for the government to continue to use monetary policies to boost economic growth.
  这使政府在继续动用货币政策提振经济增长时拥有更大回旋余地。
• Suppliers 'leeway to offer deals has been clipped by their own costs rising.
  自身成本的上升也挤压了供应商提供优惠合约的空间。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A quarter of an hour should be enough leeway.
  留出一刻钟的富余时间足够了。
• 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。
• 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。