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VERB
在…前面走（或騎）；為…帶頭
If you lead a group of people, you walk or ride in front of them.
例句
John Major and the Duke of Edinburgh led the mourners...
約翰·梅杰和愛丁堡公爵走在送葬隊伍前面。
He walks with a stick but still leads his soldiers into battle...
他雖然拄著拐杖，但依然帶領士兵們投入戰斗。
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給…引路（或帶路）；帶…（到某處）
If you lead someone to a particular place or thing, you take them there.
例句
He took Dickon by the hand to lead him into the house...
他牽著迪康的手把他領進屋。
She confessed to the killing and led police to his remains...
她交代人是她殺的，并帶警察去他的尸首處。
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VERB
（路或門）通，至，達
If a road, gate, or door leads somewhere, you can get there by following the road or going through the gate or door.
例句
...the doors that led to the yard.
通往院子的大門
...a short roadway leading to the car park...
通往停車場的一小段路
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（在比賽或競賽中）領先，占先
If you are leading at a particular point in a race or competition, you are winning at that point.
例句
He's leading in the presidential race...
他在總統競選中領先。
So far Fischer leads by five wins to two...
目前費希爾以5勝2負領先。
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領先的地位；占先的位置
If you have the lead or are in the lead in a race or competition, you are winning.
例句
England took the lead after 31 minutes with a goal by Peter Nail...
英格蘭隊第31分鐘由彼得·奈爾攻進一球，取得領先。
Labour are still in the lead in the opinion polls.
工黨在民意測驗中仍然領先。
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超前量；領先程度
Someone's lead over a competitor at a particular point in a race or competition is the distance, amount of time, or number of points by which they are ahead of them.
例句
...a commanding lead for the opposition is clearly emerging throughout the country...
顯然反對黨已開始在全國占據一邊倒的領先地位。
His goal gave Forest a two-goal lead against Southampton...
他的進球使森林隊以兩球領先南安普敦隊。
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VERB
在…中領先；勝過；主導
If one company or country leads others in a particular activity such as scientific research or business, it is more successful or advanced than they are in that activity.
例句
When it comes to pop music we not only lead Europe, we lead the world.
我們不僅引領歐洲而且引領著全球的流行音樂潮流。
...foodstores such as Marks & Spencer, which led the market in microwaveable meals.
瑪莎百貨等在微波爐食品市場占主導地位的食品賣場
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VERB
領導；率領；指揮
If you lead a group of people, an organization, or an activity, you are in control or in charge of the people or the activity.
例句
He led the country between 1949 and 1984...
1949到1984年間他是該國領導人。
Mr Mendes was leading a campaign to save Brazil's rainforest from exploitation.
門德斯先生正領導一場運動，以拯救遭到亂砍濫伐的巴西熱帶雨林。
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先河；榜樣；表率
If you give a lead, you do something new or develop new ideas or methods that other people consider to be a good example or model to follow.
例句
...the need for the president to give a moral lead...
需要總統樹立一個道德榜樣
The American and Japanese navies took the lead in the development of naval aviation...
美國和日本海軍是發展海軍航空部隊的佼佼者。
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VERB
過（某種生活）
You can use lead when you are saying what kind of life someone has. For example, if you lead a busy life, your life is busy.
例句
She led a normal, happy life with her sister and brother...
她和弟弟妹妹一起過著平凡而幸福的生活。
Most of the women in here are not people who have led a life of crime.
這里的女子大多沒有犯罪前科。
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VERB
招致；致使；導致
If something leads to a situation or event, usually an unpleasant one, it begins a process which causes that situation or event to happen.
例句
Ethnic tensions among the republics could lead to civil war...
共和國之間緊張的種族關系可能會引發內戰。
He warned yesterday that a pay rise for teachers would lead to job cuts.
他昨天警告說，給教師們加薪會導致職位的裁減。
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促使；使得；使
If something leads you to do something, it influences or affects you in such a way that you do it.
例句
His abhorrence of racism led him to write The Algiers Motel Incident...
對種族主義的憎恨促使他寫了《阿爾及爾汽車旅館事件》一書。
What was it ultimately that led you to leave Sarajevo for Zagreb?
最終是什么讓你離開薩拉熱窩前往薩格勒布的？
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VERB
誘使；誤導
If you say that someone or something led you to think something, you mean that they caused you to think it, although it was not true or did not happen.
例句
Mother had led me to believe the new baby was a kind of present for me...
母親讓我相信新出生的寶寶是給我的一個禮物。
It was not as straightforward as we were led to believe.
這事并非如我們所誤以為的那樣簡單。
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VERB
引導，掌控（談話或討論的內容）
If you lead a conversation or discussion, you control the way that it develops so that you can introduce a particular subject.
例句
After a while I led the conversation around to her job...
過了一陣子，我把話題引到她的工作上。
He planned to lead the conversation and keep Matt from changing the subject.
他計劃控制談話局面，不讓馬特轉換話題。
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VERB
（討論或文章中某一觀點或話題）把…帶到，為…引出（另一觀點或話題）
You can say that one point or topic in a discussion or piece of writing leads you to another in order to introduce a new point or topic that is linked with the previous one.
例句
Well, I think that leads me to the real point.
這個嘛，我看這讓我說到正題了。
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線索；頭緒
A lead is a piece of information or an idea which may help people to discover the facts in a situation where many facts are not known, for example in the investigation of a crime or in a scientific experiment.
例句
The inquiry team is also following up possible leads after receiving 400 calls from the public.
在接到民眾400個熱線電話后，調查組亦在對可能的線索進行追蹤。
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（戲劇、電影等中的）主角；扮演主角的演員
The lead in a play, film, or show is the most important part in it. The person who plays this part can also be called the lead.
例句
Nina Ananiashvili and Alexei Fadeyechev from the Bolshoi Ballet dance the leads...
由莫斯科大劇院芭蕾舞團的尼娜·阿納尼阿什維利和阿列克謝·法捷耶切夫擔綱演出。
The leads are Jack Hawkins and Glynis Johns.
杰克·霍金斯和格莉妮斯·約翰斯主演。
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狗繩；牽狗帶
A dog's lead is a long, thin chain or piece of leather which you attach to the dog's collar so that you can control the dog.
例句
An older man came out with a little dog on a lead.
一個年紀較大的男子牽著一條小狗走了出來。
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導線；連接線
A lead in a piece of equipment is a piece of wire covered in plastic which supplies electricity to the equipment or carries it from one part of the equipment to another.
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N-SING
（報紙或電視、電臺的）要聞，頭條
The lead story or lead in a newspaper or on the television or radio news is the most important story.
例句
The Turkish situation makes the lead in tomorrow's Guardian...
土耳其局勢將成為明天《衛報》的頭條。
Cossiga's reaction is the lead story in the Italian press.
科西加的反應成了意大利各大媒體的頭條新聞。