Lead

(noun.) the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge; 'the lead was in the dummy'.

(noun.) a position of leadership (especially in the phrase `take the lead'); 'he takes the lead in any group'; 'we were just waiting for someone to take the lead'; 'they didn't follow our lead'.

(noun.) mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil.

(noun.) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing.

(noun.) an advantage held by a competitor in a race; 'he took the lead at the last turn'.

(noun.) evidence pointing to a possible solution; 'the police are following a promising lead'; 'the trail led straight to the perpetrator'.

(noun.) the introductory section of a story; 'it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter'.

(noun.) a news story of major importance.

(noun.) (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base; 'he took a long lead off first'.

(noun.) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning.

(noun.) the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile).

(noun.) a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey; 'the children were playing with lead soldiers'.

(verb.) cause to undertake a certain action; 'Her greed led her to forge the checks'.

(verb.) travel in front of; go in advance of others; 'The procession was headed by John'.

(verb.) take somebody somewhere; 'We lead him to our chief'; 'can you take me to the main entrance?'; 'He conducted us to the palace'.

(verb.) be ahead of others; be the first; 'she topped her class every year'.

(verb.) tend to or result in; 'This remark lead to further arguments among the guests'.

校对:莱斯利

• You can't deprive me of the lead. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• What do you know of me that should lead you to suspect--Oh! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• She suffered Mr. Franklin to lead her back into the room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I shall not press the point for it would lead us far afield. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The military Colossus then tumbled, and the Press began to lead mankind. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Now lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black business. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• We were then led up to the door, where we were directed to get down on our hands and knees with our backs toward the room we were to enter. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Being delivered into the charge of the ma?tresse, I was led through a long narrow passage into a foreign kitchen, very clean but very strange. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Where Judy Trenor led, all the world would follow; and Lily had the doomed sense of the castaway who has signalled in vain to fleeing sails. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• One is the bicycle with the Palmer tire, and we see what that has led to. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He could see a trail through the grass where horses had been led to the stream to drink and there was the fresh manure of several horses. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Ezra Jennings stopped at the road which led to the village. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• There was but a single way, and that led through the mighty, towering trees upon our right. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The leading idea was different from customary muckraking. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The wiser course to take was to dismiss the idea of the opium from his mind, by leading him insensibly to think of something else. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• All others belonging to him have gone to the Power and the Glory, and I have a mind that they're drawing him to them--leading him away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• That generalization was a presupposition of the calculations leading to the discovery. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But worst of all, the door leading to the pits where I had hidden my Princess was ajar. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He also visited Rome, where he was received with the greatest good-will by Pope Paul V and his cardinals, and where he met the leading scientists of the capital. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It embodied, as leading features, the steam blast and the multitubular boiler, which latter was six feet long and had twenty-five three-inch tubes. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I have something beyond this, but I will call it a defect, not an endowment, if it leads me to misery, while ye are happy. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The subject of gymnastic leads Plato to the sister subject of medicine, which he further illustrates by the parallel of law. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• You must therefore allow me to follow the dictates of my conscience on this occasion, which leads me to perform what I look on as a point of duty. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• If one leads you wrong, I am sure the other tells you of it. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• This leads us to consider the fifth source of authority, viz. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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