Leeway
[ 'li:wei ]
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n. （航行由于强风所致的）偏航;余地;时间损失，落后;风压差，风压角;
📝 例句
How much leeway should parents give their children?
父母应该给孩子留多少自由的空间？
🌱 联想助记
leave way 离开路，提供活动的余地
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
leeway
n[U]
1 amount of freedom to move, change, etc that is left to sb （可供某人活动、 更动等的）余地
This itinerary leaves us plenty of leeway. 这个旅行计划给我们留有很多自由活动的余地.
The parking space was big enough, but there wasn't much leeway, ie margin for error. 停车处大是够大, 但并没有什麽回旋余地.
2 sideways drift of a ship or aircraft, due to the wind （船或飞行器因风而致的）偏航, 漂移.
3 (idm 习语) make up `leeway recover lost time; get back into position 补偿失去的时间; 恢复原位
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.
🔁 扩展释义
*['li:wei]n. 风压差, 风压角, 可容许的误差, 余地
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When they objected, they were killed.
他们反抗时就被杀害。
He explained that he had tried to fix the air-line to the supply line that ran round the port but could not because the fittings did not match.
他解释说他想供气管安装到铺设在码头周围的供应管上，但因为接头不相配而接不上。
In September 1888 at the age of 19, he sailed to England and after three years' study became a lawyer.
1888年9月，他19岁时乘船去了英国，并在3年的学习之后成为一名律师。