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let /let/ (let, let; letting) vt. 1.让(用于第一或第三人称的祈使句中，表示命令、请求、建议等，后跟由不带to的不定式构成的复合宾语)让： Let’s have a party tonight, shall me?今晚我们开个宴会怎么样? Let them set off at once. 叫他们立刻就出发吧。 2.允许：The child was let (to) do it. 这孩子被允许去做那件事。 3. 假设，使： Let AB equal to CD.设AB=CD。 4. 出租： This house is to be let.这房子供出租。 5.用于短词动词 let…alone不管；不干涉： Let it alone!不要管它! let alone 更别提：The baby can’t even walk, let alone run.这孩子连走都不行，更不能说跑了。［考句］Fewer and fewer of today’s workers expect to spend their working lives in the same field, let alone the same company.如今希望毕生从事同一领域的人愈来愈少，更不用说呆在同一家公司。let be听任；不打扰：Let him be.由他去。let down 放下，降低；使失望：let one’s hair down 把头发放下 The team has left the coach down. 运动队使教练大失所望。let fly (at) 向…发射：let fly an arrow 射箭 let go (of) 放开，释放：Don’t let go.别放手。Let go of my hand, you’re hurting me!松开我的手，你把我弄疼了。let in 让…进来；放进： He let himself in with a key.他用钥匙开门进去。let off 排放；放过： The boiler let off steam.锅炉放汽。It’s very rude to let off in a public place. 在公众场合放屁太不雅了。The judge let him off with a warning. 法官只是向他发出警告就把他放了。let out 放出；发出；泄露：let out a cry of surprise 惊讶地叫了一声 let …slip 不小心说漏了…：Stupidly, I let it slip that they’d decided not to give him the job. 我真傻，把他们决定不给他这份工作的事情漏了出去。let up 停下来：When the rain lets up we’ll go for a walk.雨停了我们就出去散步。The police insist that they are not letting up on their campaign against drugs.经常们坚持说他们不会停止与毒品作斗争。