词汇 | let |
释义 | let verb uk /let/ us /let/present participleletting | past tense and past participlelet letverb (ALLOW)B1[ T+ infinitive without to ] to allow something to happen or someone to do something by not doing anything to stop an action or by giving your permission: 让;允许;准许 She wanted to go but her parents wouldn't let her.她想走,但父母不让。 He decided to let his hair grow long.他决定把头发留起来。 Let your shoes dry completely before putting them on.让鞋子干透以后再穿。 I'm letting you stay up late, just this once.我允许你熬夜,但仅此一次。 Don't let it worry you.不要让它惹你心烦。 If he needs money, let him (= he should) earn it!如果他需要钱,就让他去挣吧! to allow someone to do something allowAm I allowed to go to the park? letShe wanted to go but her parents wouldn't let her. permitSmoking is not permitted in any part of the building. have your permissionYou have my permission to stay out past midnight on Friday. authorizeWho authorized this expenditure? give something the go-aheadThe government has given the go-ahead for a multi-billion pound road-building project. [ T+ obj + infinitive without to , not in past tenses ] used to show that you accept what is going to happen, although you do not like it: 任由 Let it rain - it won't spoil our afternoon.随它下吧——下雨不会影响我们下午的活动。 [ T+ obj + infinitive without to , not in past tenses ] used to say that you wish something to happen very much: (表示非常希望)让…发生 Oh, please let him get the job!噢,让他得到那份工作吧! They agreed to let us live there rent-free.他们同意我们不交租金住在那儿。 It isn't hygienic to let the cat sit on the dining table. We were asked to show some identification before the security guards would let us in.保安要我们出示身份证明才让我们进去。 The dog's scratching at the door - shall I let him in? Kyle's mum lets him stay up late on the weekends. Allowing and permitting admission admit admit of something allow of something allowable authorization authorize consent entrance excuse give the green light to somethingidiom given the chance/choiceidiom green-light hall pass hospital admission relicense relicensure say-so security clearance see your way (clear) to doing somethingidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Accepting & agreeing reluctantly Hoping and hopefulness letverb (SUGGEST)let's(also formallet us) A2 used to express a suggestion or request that includes you and the other person or people: (表示建议或请求)让我们 Let's go out to dinner.我们出去吃晚饭吧。 letverb (RENT)[ T ]mainly UK(US usuallyrent) to allow your house or land to be lived in or used by someone else in exchange for a regular payment: 租出去,出租 They are letting their house (out) for the summer.他们准备夏天把房子租出去。 He's let his flat to a young couple.他把公寓房租给了一对年轻夫妇。 She has a room to let in her house.她的房子里有一个房间要出租。 Mortgages & real estate blockbusting brick BTL buy-to-let chain endowment mortgage equity landlady letting mortgagee planning blight real estate developer real estate office Realtor realty realty office refinance remortgage repossess vacancy You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Renting property GrammarAllow, permit or let? Allow, permit and let are verbs that all have a similar meaning: ‘give permission or make it possible for somebody to do or have something’. … Permit/allow someone + to do something We use a direct object + to-infinitive after permit and allow: … Let someone + do something We use an infinitive without to after let: … Passive with permit and allow We often use the passive with permit and allow. Permit is often used for official public notices: … Let, let’s We use let to talk about permission. Let is followed by an object and an infinitive without to: … Let: permission We use let to talk about permission. Let is followed by an object and an infinitive without to: … Let’s, let: suggestions, offers, imperatives Let us is the first person plural imperative, which we only use in very formal situations. Let’s is the short form, which we often use to make suggestions which include ourselves: … Let meaning ‘rent’ We use let with a direct object meaning ‘rent something to someone’: … Imperatives with let (let’s) We use let to form first person and third person imperatives. … Negative imperative of let’s We often use the phrase let’s not: … Idiomslet someone be let go let someone go let something go/pass let yourself go let your hair down let someone have it let someone in on a secret let someone know let something slip let something go let it all hang out let it be known let it lie let rip/fly let the side down let's face it let's see Phrasal verbslet someone down let something down let someone/something in let yourself in for something let someone in on something let something into something let someone off let something off let on let someone/something out let something out let out let up let adverb uk /let/ us /let/ let alone C1 used after a negative statement to emphasize how unlikely a situation is because something much more likely has never happened: (用于否定句后表示强调)当然不会,更不用说 Some people never even read a newspaper, let alone a book.有些人从不看报纸,更不用说读书了。 let noun uk /let/ us /let/ letnoun (SPORT)[ C ] sports (in tennis or similar games) a situation in which the ball touches the net as it crosses it, so that you have to play the point again(网球等运动项目的)发球擦网,发球触网 Tennis & racket sports ace alley approach shot backcourt ball boy ball girl chip forecourt forehand knock up mixed doubles outhit paddleball padel passing shot pelota seed shuttlecock string tramlines letnoun (LAW)without let or hindrancelaw UKspecialized without being prevented from doing something: 无障碍地,自由地 People will be able to travel from country to country without let or hindrance.人们将能够不受任何限制地在各国之间自由往来。 letnoun (RENT)[ C ]UK the act of allowing someone to use your house, land, etc. in exchange for regular payments: 出租,租赁 a five-year let on a flat为期5年的公寓租赁 Mortgages & real estate blockbusting brick BTL buy-to-let chain endowment mortgage equity landlady letting mortgagee planning blight real estate developer real estate office Realtor realty realty office refinance remortgage repossess vacancy You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Renting property -let suffix uk / -lət/ us / -lət/ small, not very important: 小的;不很重要的 piglet小猪 Small baby bijou bite-sized claustrophobically compactly dwarf elfin midget miniaturized missy modestly no/not enough room to swing a catidiom on the large, small, etc. sideidiom S, s sampler scaled-down scrubby shoe box shrunken wee GrammarDiminutives (-let, -y and mini-) A diminutive creates a meaning of ‘small’ or ‘little’. The most common diminutives are formed with the prefix mini- and with suffixes such as -let and -y. We often use a diminutive with names or with abbreviated names when we want to be more informal, or to express affection for someone or something: … let | American Dictionarylet verb[ T ] us/let/ letverb[T] (ALLOW)present participle-tt- | past tense and past participlelet to allow something to happen or someone to do something by giving permission or by not doing anything to stop it from happening: Fraya’s parents let her go to the movie. He decided to let his hair grow long. She opened the door and let me in (= allowed me to enter). After questioning him for six hours, the police finally let him go (= released him). letverb[T] (CAUSE)present participleletting | past tense and past participlelet to cause something to happen or to be in a particular condition, or to cause someone to understand something: He let the pool empty. Let me know if you need help. He let out a shout (= He shouted). letverb[T] (SUGGEST)let usfml let us I suggest that we: For the sake of argument, let us assume that Rochelle is right. After visiting the gift shop, let us proceed into Graceland itself. Idiomslet alone do something let someone/something alone let something be known let go let someone go let yourself go let go (of something/someone) let someone have it let nature take its course let off steam let something/someone slide let’s face it let’s see Phrasal verbslet someone in on something let down someone let off someone let on let out let out something let up let up on someone/something let | Business Englishlet verb[ T ] uk /let/usletting | let | let to allow something to happen, or to allow someone to do something, by giving your permission or by not doing anything to stop an action: We do not let our staff use social networking sites at work. They had let the office accommodation become rundown and shabby. UK(USrent) to allow your house or land to be lived in or used by someone else in exchange for a regular payment: let sth (out) to sbThey are letting their house out for the summer. He's let his flat to a young couple. The Technology Park has office accommodation and business units to let. let on sthThe property is let on a 10-year lease. The holiday apartments are let on a weekly basis. let sb go HR informal to make someone leave their job: Sales are down considerably and we've had to let some staff go. I've only been let go twice in my career. let noun[ C ] UKuk /let/us the act of allowing someone to use your house, land, etc. in exchange for regular payments: let on stha five-year let on a flat short-term/long-term letWe've taken the studios on a short-term let. without let or hindrance LAW without being prevented from doing something: People will be able to travel from country to country without let or hindrance. Examples of letlet Let us now link the transfer matrix with our mutation-selection model. Let us recall the definitions of minimality and ergodicity of a foliation. He was never going to find peace for letting them threaten him into it. Let us illustrate the previous propagations by a simple example. Let v be a line vector of ones. Let be the distance between the two sets. Let be a basic desire formula and let be a trajectory. Let l1 be the pre-description to the if-then-else. Let be x a formula which can possibly contain free variables. Let the query be of the form :- p(u) with u being of type nat. Let us show that almrecurrence can be efficiently decided. Let her at least not be a kept mistress. His approach to psychopathology was sceptical and philosophical; and he never created his own school of psychiatric, let alone psychopathological, teaching. Let us assume for the moment that such simulations are possible physically and follow the implications. Accepting the purely syntactic part of this extremely simple analysis, let us consider the semantics of the sentence. See all examples of let These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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