| 单词 | let |
| 释义 | let I. archaic < by Heaven! I'll make a ghost of him that lets me — Shakespeare > < mine ancient wound is hardly whole and lets me from the saddle — Alfred Tennyson > II. 1. < free to inquire without let or hindrance — B.G.Gallagher > < the task of a socialist movement to challenge without let the moral values of society — Lloyd Harrington > < perennials reseeding themselves without outside meddling help or let — William Faulkner > 2. III. transitive verb 1. < the king … let me know that when and if that story was told he would do the telling himself — John Barkham > < doctor, let me know the worst > < he let it be known that he might consider parting with his Stradivarius > 2. a. chiefly Britain < she let him the rooms at once — Margaret Kennedy > < let the premises > < the island is now let as grazings — A.A.MacGregor > — often used with off or out < working part of their land themselves and letting off the rest — Alfons Dopsch > < small holdings which were let out on long leases by the crown — Alan Edwards > b. < bids are opened before the contract is let — T.W.Arnold > < another contract for some 300 miles will be let — Wall Street Journal > < let one's timber rights > — often used with out < work was let out to be done in the homes — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > 3. a. chiefly dialect < I'll give him my commission, to let him there a month — Shakespeare > b. obsolete < to her mother Nature all her care she lets — Edmund Spenser > 4. a. < jagged holes … let him see the mountains — Paul Bartlett > < throw them together … and let dialogue and incident evolve — Richard Garnett †1906 > < live and let live > < very particular not to let his beasts stray — F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox > < lets himself be pushed around — Margaret Mead > b. (1) — used in the imperative to introduce a request or proposal < let us pray > < let not the reader be frightened away by a first impression — William Barrett > < at the outset, let it be acknowledged — D.C.Buchanan > < let sleeping dogs lie > (2) — used especially in Ireland as an intensive auxiliary to form the second person imperative < let you go along with her, stranger — J.M.Synge > c. — used imperatively as an auxiliary to express a warning < let one drama hit the air waves with this dialogue … and the wires will be clogged by protests — Jessamyn West > < let him set foot on my property and I'll have him arrested > < just let him try > 5. < consult you about letting the water from the great pond — E.G.Bulwer-Lytton > < received no American aid … so he must attempt to prolong the emotion letting — New Republic > < fight until their blood is all let — Winston Churchill > — used with off or out < got mad and let off steam by kicking the dog > < let out a scream > 6. < he let the lid back down slowly — W.F.Davis > < the pickets would not let them through > < who let the cat in > < the warden lets the prisoner out > < lets the car into high gear — F.L.Allen > < lets the slack out > < let himself quietly out the bedroom window > < let herself down light and easy, for that chair … was frail — Dorothy C. Fisher > 7. < let to bail > 8. obsolete < did not let to praise the clear unmatched red and white — Shakespeare > intransitive verb 1. chiefly Britain < the flat lets for £35 a month > 2. < blueprints of … projects advertised for letting — U.S. Code > Synonyms: < let him go > < wanted to go but his parents would not let him > and besides signifying, at one extreme, a positive giving of permission can, at the other, signify failure to prevent because of neglect, inability, or inaction < to let the cold in by forgetting to close a door > < tremble so that he let the plate fall from his hands > < countries that let themselves become dependent on the labor of other countries — G.B.Shaw > allow and permit both imply more strongly than the comparable use of let the power or authority to prohibit or prevent or to refrain from prohibiting or preventing. allow usually implies a forbearing to prohibit; permit implies a more express willing or acquiescing < nothing is permitted, everything is allowed > < under absentee ownership the machinery was allowed to become obsolescent — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > < allow a child to go out without his overcoat > < would have liked to have begun the study of art, but family finances did not permit this — Current Biography > < permits his cattle to graze on the new pasture in such numbers that the feed is quickly used up — P.E.James > suffer is often but rather bookishly interchangeable with allow in its narrowest sense < suffer little children to come unto me — Lk 18: 16 (Authorized Version) > but more usually implies indifference or reluctance < would the state suffer its foundation to be destroyed — Henry Adams > < suffered herself to be led to the tiny enclosure — S.E.White > leave when used in this sense implies strongly a noninterference < leave them to determine their own fates > < the parents left the children free to come and go as they pleased > < his principle was to choose competent lieutenants, and then to leave them to work without hampering interference — Irish Digest > • - let alone - let be - let fly - let go - let into - let loose - let one have it - let slide - let slip - let the cat out of the bag IV. Britain 1. a. b. 2. V. • - let it all hang out - let rip - let the chips fall where they may |
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