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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

离开 [líkāi]
  1. 1. leave; depart from; deviate from; exit; get along; get off; get out; go; go away; go out; quit; withdraw; retire; move away
    他已经离开北京了。
    He has left Beijing.
    离开本题
    stray from the subject; digress
    离不开手儿
    be too busy with the job on hand; have one's hands full

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

离开 [líkāi]
  1. 1. 跟人、地、事物分开
    离开父母去求学
    离开北京去天津了
    离开工作岗位。

Examples

她经不住这样的熬煎,过早地离开了人世。
Unable to endure such torments, she came to an untimely end.
请不要离开本题。
Please keep (or stick) to the point.
据我揣测,他已经离开太原了。
My guess is that he's already left Taiyuan.
他在保卫人员的护卫下离开了机场。
He left the airport under the protection of the security guards.
离开家乡十年,从未回去过。
He has never been back to his birthplace since he left it ten years ago.
离开了客观现实的想像就成为空想。
An imagination which is divorced from objective reality can only produce empty fantasies.
离开本题
stray from the subject; digress
这本书是我临离开北京时买的。
I bought this book just before I left Beijing.
他在暖房里盘旋了半天才离开
He lingered in the greenhouse for some time before he left.

Collocations

匆忙离开
a rushed leave
离开家乡
to leave one's hometown
准备离开
to prepare to leave
转身离开
to turn around to leave
离开多年
to leave for several years

Word Decomposition


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