leave /li:v/ I. vt. & vi. (left, left) 1. 离开：When did you leave the army? 你什么时候离开部队的? 2. 留下，剩下：She asked me to leave my address. 她让我留下我的地址。I’ve left my keys at home.我把钥匙落在家里了。There is one book left. 还剩一本书。3. 交给，留交，托付: You had better leave the matter with/to us.你最好把这事交给我们办。They left the boy in my care. 他们把孩子托付给我了。Cornelius had left her fifty pounds a year for life.科尼利厄斯遗留给她余生每年50英镑。4.让(继续处于某种状态)（跟带过去分词、形容词、介词短语和现在分词的复合结构）：We mustn’t leave the work unfinished.这工作我们不能不干完。You’d better leave the door open.最好让门开着。This left them without a ray of hope.这使他们失去了一切希望。They walked off and left me sitting there all by myself. 他们走了，让我孤零零一个人坐在那里。［考句］His remarks left me wondering about his real purpose. 他的发言使我对他的真实目的感到怀疑。5. 离开;动身： He left for London last week. 他上周动身去伦敦了。6.用于习语或短语动词 leave alone 让…独自呆着；不打扰：avoid being left alone with sb. 避免一个人单独与某人在一起；leave that box alone 别碰那盒子 leave behind 忘了带；留下：leave behind a long train problems 留下一大堆的问题Don’t leave me behind.不能把我忘带了。leave off 停止，中断： Has it left off raining yet? = Has the rain left off yet? 雨停了吗? leave out 漏掉；删掉：They left out question 10.他们把第十个问题去掉了。leave to one’s own devices让某人自己决策（见device条）‖II. n. 用于习语take one’s leave (of) 离开：He decided the time had come to take leave of his home town. 他决定离开家乡的时间已经到了。
［辨析］leave表示“离开”用作vt.. depart为vi.，后接介词from，指有计划的而不是临时决定的离开，比较正式。
