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单词 to leave to it
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to leave (a person) to it
P4. to leave (a person) to it: to leave (a person) alone to proceed with a task in hand; to allow to get on with something without interference.
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1580 R. Bristow Reply to Fulke x. 289 Because his purpose was no more but to shew the new Hierusalem of the Christians, and so to leaue them to it, to know what are the particulars that the Apostles taught.
1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque sig. K3v Wid.The lodging Sir, might serue better Guestes.Lyo. Not better, Widdow, nor yet welcommer: But wee will leaue you to it.
a1671 S. Mather Figures or Types Old Test. (1683) 317 If they do amiss, you should consider why God leaves them to it.
1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques iv. ii. 50 Yes, she has abandon'd me, and I will abandon my self to Despair; so, pray leave me to it, for such as you can have no Business with the Unhappy.
1814 Rep. Sel. Comm. Gauging in Port of London 127 in Parl. Papers 1813–14 IV. 1 Mr. John did it till he was satisfied of his son's ability to gauge, and then he left him to it.
1838 Sporting Mag. Jan. 245 Back we came to Hilly Wood,..and there I left them to it, having tired my horse and myself.
1879 Truth 16 Oct. 477/1 I have well-nigh decided Just to claim my dukedom straightway, And retire and leave you to it!
1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree viii. 109 He wanted to do it in his own way, before Barrow's hurly-burly had frightened the colts. So we left him to it.
1974 W. J. Burley Death in Stanley St. vii. 127 Wycliffe stood up. ‘Good. I'll leave you to it.’
2015 J. Niven All Bright Places 17 I take a heaping pile of pamphlets and leave him to it.
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