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

• 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。
• They understand how I construct steps and I give them a lot of leeway and sometimes actually give them very little instructions and they fill in the blanks.
  他们了解我是如何构造舞步的，我给他们很多回旋的余地，事实上很多时候我只给他们非常少的指点，由他们自己来填补空白。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。