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单词 leave behind
释义

leave behind

1. phrasal verb
If you leave someone or something behind, you go away permanently from them.
He decided he must take his family with him as it was too dangerous to leave thembehind. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
I hated it at first because it meant leaving behind all my friends. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
2. phrasal verb
If you leave behind an object or a situation, it remains after you have left a place.
I don't want to leave anything behind. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
A misty rain in the morning had left behind a coolness that would stay for hours. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
3. phrasal verb
If a person, country, or organization is left behind, they remain at a lower level than others because they are not as quick at understanding things or developing.
We're going to be left behind by the rest of the world. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE]
I got left behind at school with the maths. [get V-ed P]
Inflation has left them way behind. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
See full dictionary entry for leave

leave behind in British English

verb (transitive)
1. (adverb)
to forget or neglect to bring or take
2. 
to cause to remain as a result or sign of something
the storm left a trail of damage behind
3. 
to pass
once the wind came up, we soon left the land behind us

Examples of 'leave behind' in a sentence
leave behind

Then it was back to the team and the country he had left behind.
The Sun (2009)
Employees left behind after redundancies will stay longer if they see that their employer is acting responsibly.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The other approach would be via the flint implements and other archaeological remains that were left behind.
Francis Pryor BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans (2003)
These things certainly take some leaving behind.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He will leave behind a country that is both ruined and angry.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He left behind him a country going to the dogs.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He leaves behind a country in ruins.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But the dancer enthuses about the country he left behind.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
What do you do if your husband resents being left behind when you go to church each week?
Christianity Today (2000)
Wool can have toxic residues left behind after the sheep have been dipped which can remain in the fibre.
Lashford, Stephanie The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food (1988)
The ones that take more than a week to go and then leave behind a scar for another month.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Tip off the fat again, leaving behind any dark sauce and gooey bits.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It sang sweetly for a minute and went away, leaving behind a deep tranquillity.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Being in a bad mood about something that happened at work is not something you leave behind once you shut your office door.
Vera Peiffer POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but wereafraid to put into practice (2001)
 Many people were left behind and aren't at all happy with the new situation.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Two tonnes of canisters containing laughing gas were left behind after last year's festival.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They come and go, leaving behind heartburn and skips full of ironic decorations.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Fashion houses who aren't designing clothes for bigger bodies are going to be left behind.
The Sun (2007)
At the base camp they left behind, soon only one blue barrel and one group of tents remained.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It is not something I left behind.
The Sun (2014)
Q What happens to all the camping gear left behind after a festival?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It's the stuff we've thrown away or left behind.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)

Chinese translation of 'leave behind'

leave behind

vt

  1. (= forget) 忘带(帶) (wàngdài)
  2. (= decide not to take) 留下 (liúxià)
  3. (= say goodbye to) [person, place] 永别(別) (yǒngbié)
  4. (= leave in one's wake) [situation] 留下 (liúxià)
  5. (= advance beyond) [country, organization] 超过(過) (chāoguò)
See leave

Nearby words of
leave behind

  • least of all
  • leather
  • leave
  • leave behind
  • leave off
  • leave on
  • leave out

Related terms of
leave behind

  • to leave sth behind
  • leave out
  • leave on
  • leave off
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