单词 | leave a person alone |
释义 | > as lemmasto leave (a person) alone a. to leave (a person) alone: to go away from (a person) so that he or she is without company or support, to abandon or desert; to let alone (see let v.1 18a).Sometimes with suggestion of the next sense ( Phrases 1b). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [verb (transitive)] > leave alone to leave (a person) alonec1330 desolate1530 c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 2473 Þai..fond hire þat niȝt stouer, And left here alone. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2154 (MED) & leuez þe knyȝt þere al one. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. i. A Ye doughter of Syon is left alone like a cotage in a vynyearde. 1578 M. Tyler tr. D. Ortúñez de Calahorra Mirrour Princely Deedes f. 121 Leaue mee alone I praye thee and my griefe shall not grieue me without thy companye. 1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia iii. i. sig. Fv Leaue me alone, for I must now resume My surly, graue, and Doctorall aspect. 1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xvi. 149 I being left alone in this Room was not idle, but rummaged about. 1750 M. Clancy Memoirs I. 123 The old Negress went off, and we were left alone. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 267 I did not dare to leave my child alone and unsheltered. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xiii. 220 I shouldn't care to leave any of them alone with my plate-basket. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xv. 235 All I ask is to be left alone to moulder away in solitude. 1964 J. Stewart tr. G. Simenon Maigret Mystified iv. 45 Couchet was always leaving me alone and gadding about to try his luck. 2006 K. Richardson Greywalker xvi. 146 Mara whisked out of the kitchen, leaving me alone with her husband. to leave (a person or thing) alone (also †one) b. to leave (a person or thing) alone (also †one): to stop or abstain from interfering with or paying attention to; to let alone (see let v.1 18b).to leave severely alone: see severely adv. 1d. to leave well alone: see well adj. and n.3 Phrases 3, well adv. and n.4 Phrases 7. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > pursue (a matter) no further to leave (a person or thing) alone (also one)a1475 forbear1570 to let fall1594 fall1630 waive1681 withdraw1781 to leave it at that1861 a1475 in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 3 Thou woldus gladly with me fare, And leve one my talkynge. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 88 If þou leue þe water aloon, it shal make whit. 1649 ‘E. Philodemus’ Armies Vindic. 7 Mr. Sedgwicks councell is if a man see his house a fire, not to move or seek to quench it, but leave it alone till it be burnt down to the ground. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xxiii. 137 We have stubbed and weeded and cleared Humane Nature to that degree, that in a little time, leaving it alone without any labouring or teaching, you shall see natural and just Ideas sprout forth of themselves. 1798 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1973) IV. 181 O, leave him alone! cried Mr. Pepys,—take care only of his health & strength. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 24 Fly doors, or swing doors,..constructed as always to fall close when left alone, but to open either towards or from the current of air. 1885 Manch. Examiner 5 June 5/1 We cannot but wish that Mr. Gladstone had left the matter alone. 1933 J. C. Powys Glastonbury Romance xxii. 713 If you haven't the guts to act like a man in the matter, you ought to leave this girl alone. 2013 Guardian 29 Oct. (G2 section) 8/3 He can't leave any situation alone or any scab unpicked. < as lemmas |
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