(Brit.)struggle out of a bad position, especially by recovering lost time(英)（尤指以挽回失去時間的方法）擺脫困境
柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典釋義
N-UNCOUNT
自由；自由空間；回旋余地
Leeway is the freedom that someone has to take the action they want to or to change their plans.
例句
Rarely do schoolteachers have leeway to teach classes the way they want...鮮有學校老師可隨心所欲地教書的情況。The President said that he wanted to give states more leeway to pursue their own health-care reforms.總統(tǒng)說他希望給各州更多的醫(yī)療改革空間。
N-UNCOUNT
（需要彌補的）失去時間，落后差距
If you have leeway to make up, you have to work hard because you do not have much time to reach a particular goal.
例句
He just could not make up the leeway from the earlier stages in which Ryan scored well.瑞安在前幾輪得分很高，他現(xiàn)在再想趕也趕不上了。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
靈活性;隨意處置的余地
It doesn’t give you much leeway, does it?這一來, 你就沒有多少回旋的余地了, 是不是？
時間損失;落后
He’s got a lot of leeway to make up in his studies after his illness.他病好后要花好多時間趕拉下的功課。
擺脫逆境；(尤指)挽回失去的時間
By now, James was so far behind in the race that he knew he had little chance of making up the leeway.此時詹姆斯在賽跑中落后太多，他知道自己已經(jīng)無力回天。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. (of a ship or plane) sideways drift
2. a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits