leads

英 [liːdz]

美 [liːdz]

v.  带路; 领路; 引领; (与…)相连，相通; 通向; 通往
n.  (竞赛中的)领先地位; 超前量; 领先的距离; 实例; 范例; 榜样
n.  铅; 铅笔芯
lead的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

BEING AHEAD OR TAKING SOMEONE SOMEWHERE 领先；带领某人去某处

• VERB 在…前面走（或骑）；为…带头
  If youleada group of people, you walk or ride in front of them.
  1. John Major and the Duke of Edinburgh led the mourners...
     约翰·梅杰和爱丁堡公爵走在送葬队伍前面。
  2. He walks with a stick but still leads his soldiers into battle...
     他虽然拄着拐杖，但依然带领士兵们投入战斗。
  3. Tom was leading, a rifle slung over his back.
     汤姆走在前面，背上挂着一支步枪。
• VERB 给…引路（或带路）；带…（到某处）
  If youleadsomeone to a particular place or thing, you take them there.
  1. He took Dickon by the hand to lead him into the house...
     他牵着迪康的手把他领进屋。
  2. She confessed to the killing and led police to his remains...
     她交代人是她杀的，并带警察去他的尸首处。
  3. Leading the horse, Evandar walked to the door.
     伊万德牵着马走到门前。
• VERB （路或门）通，至，达
  If a road, gate, or doorleadssomewhere, you can get there by following the road or going through the gate or door.
  1. ...the doors that led to the yard.
     通往院子的大门
  2. ...a short roadway leading to the car park...
     通往停车场的一小段路
  3. Hundreds of people are said to have blocked a main highway leading north.
     据称有数百人堵住了一条往北的主干公路。
• VERB （在比赛或竞赛中）领先，占先
  If youare leadingat a particular point in a race or competition, you are winning at that point.
  1. He's leading in the presidential race...
     他在总统竞选中领先。
  2. So far Fischer leads by five wins to two...
     目前费希尔以5胜2负领先。
  3. Aston Villa last led the League in March 1990.
     阿斯顿维拉队上一次赢得联赛冠军是在1990年3月。
• N-SING 领先的地位；占先的位置
  If you havethe leador arein the leadin a race or competition, you are winning.
  1. England took the lead after 31 minutes with a goal by Peter Nail...
     英格兰队第31分钟由彼得·奈尔攻进一球，取得领先。
  2. Labour are still in the lead in the opinion polls.
     工党在民意测验中仍然领先。
• N-SING 超前量；领先程度
  Someone'slead overa 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.
  1. ...a commanding lead for the opposition is clearly emerging throughout the country...
     显然反对党已开始在全国占据一边倒的领先地位。
  2. His goal gave Forest a two-goal lead against Southampton...
     他的进球使森林队以两球领先南安普敦队。
  3. Sainz now has a lead of 28 points.
     塞恩斯目前领先28分。
• VERB 在…中领先；胜过；主导
  If one company or countryleadsothers in a particular activity such as scientific research or business, it is more successful or advanced than they are in that activity.
  1. When it comes to pop music we not only lead Europe, we lead the world.
     我们不仅引领欧洲而且引领着全球的流行音乐潮流。
  2. ...foodstores such as Marks & Spencer, which led the market in microwaveable meals.
     玛莎百货等在微波炉食品市场占主导地位的食品卖场
• VERB 领导；率领；指挥
  If youleada group of people, an organization, or an activity, you are in control or in charge of the people or the activity.
  1. He led the country between 1949 and 1984...
     1949到1984年间他是该国领导人。
  2. Mr Mendes was leading a campaign to save Brazil's rainforest from exploitation.
     门德斯先生正领导一场运动，以拯救遭到乱砍滥伐的巴西热带雨林。
• N-COUNT 先河；榜样；表率
  If you give alead, you do something new or develop new ideas or methods that other people consider to be a good example or model to follow.
  1. ...the need for the president to give a moral lead...
     需要总统树立一个道德榜样
  2. The American and Japanese navies took the lead in the development of naval aviation...
     美国和日本海军是发展海军航空部队的佼佼者。
  3. Over the next 150 years, many others followed his lead.
     随后150年，许多人效法于他。
• VERB 过（某种生活）
  You can useleadwhen you are saying what kind of life someone has. For example, if youleada busy life, your life is busy.
  1. She led a normal, happy life with her sister and brother...
     她和弟弟妹妹一起过着平凡而幸福的生活。
  2. Most of the women in here are not people who have led a life of crime.
     这里的女子大多没有犯罪前科。
• VERB 招致；致使；导致
  If somethingleads toa situation or event, usually an unpleasant one, it begins a process which causes that situation or event to happen.
  1. Ethnic tensions among the republics could lead to civil war...
     共和国之间紧张的种族关系可能会引发内战。
  2. He warned yesterday that a pay rise for teachers would lead to job cuts.
     他昨天警告说，给教师们加薪会导致职位的裁减。
• VERB 促使；使得；使
  If somethingleadsyoutodo something, it influences or affects you in such a way that you do it.
  1. His abhorrence of racism led him to write The Algiers Motel Incident...
     对种族主义的憎恨促使他写了《阿尔及尔汽车旅馆事件》一书。
  2. What was it ultimately that led you to leave Sarajevo for Zagreb?
     最终是什么让你离开萨拉热窝前往萨格勒布的？
• VERB 诱使；误导
  If you say that someone or somethingledyoutothink something, you mean that they caused you to think it, although it was not true or did not happen.
  1. Mother had led me to believe the new baby was a kind of present for me...
     母亲让我相信新出生的宝宝是给我的一个礼物。
  2. It was not as straightforward as we were led to believe.
     这事并非如我们所误以为的那样简单。
• VERB 引导，掌控（谈话或讨论的内容）
  If youleada conversation or discussion, you control the way that it develops so that you can introduce a particular subject.
  1. After a while I led the conversation around to her job...
     过了一阵子，我把话题引到她的工作上。
  2. He planned to lead the conversation and keep Matt from changing the subject.
     他计划控制谈话局面，不让马特转换话题。
• VERB （讨论或文章中某一观点或话题）把…带到，为…引出（另一观点或话题）
  You can say that one point or topic in a discussion or piece of writingleadsyoutoanother in order to introduce a new point or topic that is linked with the previous one.
  1. Well, I think that leads me to the real point.
     这个嘛，我看这让我说到正题了。
• N-COUNT 线索；头绪
  Aleadis 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.
  1. The inquiry team is also following up possible leads after receiving 400 calls from the public.
     在接到民众400个热线电话后，调查组亦在对可能的线索进行追踪。
• N-COUNT （戏剧、电影等中的）主角；扮演主角的演员
  The leadin a play, film, or show is the most important part in it. The person who plays this part can also be called thelead.
  1. Nina Ananiashvili and Alexei Fadeyechev from the Bolshoi Ballet dance the leads...
     由莫斯科大剧院芭蕾舞团的尼娜·阿纳尼阿什维利和阿列克谢·法捷耶切夫担纲演出。
  2. The leads are Jack Hawkins and Glynis Johns.
     杰克·霍金斯和格莉妮斯·约翰斯主演。
• N-COUNT 狗绳；牵狗带
  A dog'sleadis a long, thin chain or piece of leather which you attach to the dog's collar so that you can control the dog.
  1. An older man came out with a little dog on a lead.
     一个年纪较大的男子牵着一条小狗走了出来。

in AM, use 美国英语用 leash


• 导线；连接线
  Aleadin 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.
• N-SING （报纸或电视、电台的）要闻，头条
  Thelead storyorleadin a newspaper or on the television or radio news is the most important story.
  1. The Turkish situation makes the lead in tomorrow's Guardian...
     土耳其局势将成为明天《卫报》的头条。
  2. Cossiga's reaction is the lead story in the Italian press.
     科西加的反应成了意大利各大媒体的头条新闻。
• See also:leading-led. to lead someone astray

SUBSTANCES 物质

• N-UNCOUNT 铅
  Leadis a soft, grey, heavy metal.
  1. ...drinking water supplied by old-fashioned lead pipes.
     由老式铅管输送的饮用水
• N-UNCOUNT 枪弹；子弹；枪子儿
  Leadis sometimes used to refer to bullets.
  1. Eventually Bogart pumps him full of lead.
     最后博加特开枪扫射，把他打成了马蜂窝。
• （铅笔的）笔芯
  Theleadin a pencil is the centre part of it which makes a mark on paper.

双语例句

• Perseverance leads to success.
  有恒心就能胜利。
• The minister criticised the police for failing to come up with any leads
  部长批评警方没能找到任何线索。
• Poverty leads to slums, which are an eyesore and a health hazard.
  贫困产生了贫民窟，那里不仅有碍观瞻，而且卫生隐患严重。
• The expressway goes [ leads] straight to Shenyang.
  这条高速公路直通沈阳。
• The Princess's sitting-room leads off the drawing room
  王妃的起居室挨着客厅。
• What monstrous perversion of the human spirit leads a sniper to open fire on a bus carrying children?
  是何等可怕的心理扭曲会导致狙击手向载满儿童的公共汽车开火？
• A narrow steep path leads down into a valley and up the far side.
  一条狭窄陡峭的小径向下伸进山谷，又从山谷的那一边向上延伸。
• Sometimes a bit of selfishness, if it leads to greater self-knowledge, is no bad thing
  如果能唤起更多自知之明，有时候一点点自私并非坏事。
• The leads are Jack Hawkins and Glynis Johns.
  杰克·霍金斯和格莉妮斯·约翰斯主演。
• Unemployment leads to a sense of uselessness, to say nothing of financial problems.
  失业会让人觉得自己一无是处，更何况还会带来经济问题。