lead

A：Excuse me. I’m afraid I got lost. Can you show me the way to the station?
      对不起，我迷路了，请问您能告诉我去车站怎么走吗？

B：I’m walking that way. Let me lead you the way.
      我正朝那边去。让我给你带路吧！

lead的意思

A：Are you sure you can make profits out of the investment?
      你确信这次投资一定能获利吗？

B：I am not sure. It's only a leap in the dark.
      我也没有把握。这只是一次冒险。

A：And it's the only chance for you to lead your company out of difficulties, isn't it?
      而且这也是你带领公司走出困境的唯一机会，是吗？

lead的解释

B：Yeah. So I have to have a try.
      是的。所以我必须一试。

A：How are you this afternoon?
      今天下午过得如何?

B：Just fine. I looked over the catalog you gave me this morning, and I'd like to discuss prices on your computer speakers.
      还好。今天早上我已经详细看过你给我的目录了。我想讨论有关你们计算机扬声器的价格。

A：Very good. Here is our price list.
      好的。这是我们的价目表。

B：Let me see . . . I see that your listed price for the K-two-one model is ten U.S. dollars. Do you offer quantity discounts?
      我看看……。你们K-2-1 型的标价是美金十块钱。你们有提供大量订购的折扣吗？

A：We sure do. We give a five percent discount for orders of a hundred or more.
      当然有。100 或以上的订单我们有百分之五的折扣。

B：What kind of discount could you give me if I were to place an order for six hundred units?
      如果我下六百组的订单，你们可以给我什么样的折扣？

lead

A：On an order of six hundred, we can give you a discount of ten percent.
      订单是六百组的话，我们可以给你百分之十的折扣。

B：What about lead time?
      交货时间呢?

lead的翻译

A：We could ship your order within ten days of receiving your payment.
      在收到货款的十天内，我们就可以把货送出去。

B：So, you require payment in advance of shipment?
      所以，你们在送货前要先收货款?

A：Yes. You could wire transfer the payment into our bank account or open a letter of credit in our favor.
      是的。你可以汇款到我们的银行帐户，或是开一个以我们公司为抬头的信用状。

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B：I'd like to go ahead and place an order for six hundred units.
      那我想就先下六百组的订单。

A：Great! I'll just fill out the purchase order and have you sign it.
      太棒了!我马上写订购单并请你签名。

1. 在…前面走（或骑）；为…带头
    If you lead a group of people, you walk or ride in front of them.

    e.g. 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。
    e.g. 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。

2. 给…引路（或带路）；带…（到某处）
    If you lead someone to a particular place or thing, you take them there.

    e.g. He took Dickon by the hand to lead him into the house...
           他牵着迪康的手把他领进屋。
    e.g. 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. （路或门）通，至，达
    If a road, gate, or door leads somewhere, you can get there by following the road or going through the gate or door.

    e.g. ...the doors that led to the yard.
           通往院子的大门
    e.g. ...a short roadway leading to the car park...
           通往停车场的一小段路

4. （在比赛或竞赛中）领先，占先
    If you are leading at a particular point in a race or competition, you are winning at that point.

    e.g. He's leading in the presidential race...
           他在总统竞选中领先。
    e.g. So far Fischer leads by five wins to two...
           目前费希尔以5胜2负领先。

5. 领先的地位；占先的位置
    If you have the lead or are in the lead in a race or competition, you are winning.

lead的反义词

    e.g. 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。
    e.g. Labour are still in the lead in the opinion polls.
           工党在民意测验中仍然领先。

6. 超前量；领先程度
    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.

lead的意思

    e.g. ...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。
    e.g. 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。

7. 在…中领先；胜过；主导
    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.

    e.g. 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。
    e.g. ...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

8. 领导；率领；指挥
    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.

    e.g. He led the country between 1949 and 1984...
           1949到1984年间他是该国领导人。
    e.g. 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。

9. 先河；榜样；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.

    e.g. ...the need for the president to give a moral lead...
           需要总统树立一个道德榜样
    e.g. 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。

10. 过（某种生活）
    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.

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    e.g. 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。
    e.g. 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。

11. 招致；致使；导致
      If something leads to a situation or event, usually an unpleasant one, it begins a process which causes that situation or event to happen.

      e.g. 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。
      e.g. 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。

12. 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.

lead的意思

      e.g. 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。
      e.g. 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？

13. 诱使；误导
      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.

      e.g. 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。
      e.g. 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。

14. 引导，掌控（谈话或讨论的内容）
      If you lead a conversation or discussion, you control the way that it develops so that you can introduce a particular subject.

      e.g. 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。
      e.g. 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。

15. （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 writing leads you to another in order to introduce a new point or topic that is linked with the previous one.

      e.g. Well, I think that leads me to the real point.
             这个嘛，我看这让我说到正题了。

16. 线索；头绪
      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.

      e.g. 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。

17. （戏剧、电影等中的）主角；扮演主角的演员
      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.

      e.g. 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。
      e.g. The leads are Jack Hawkins and Glynis Johns.
             杰克·霍金斯和格莉妮斯·约翰斯主演。

18. 狗绳；牵狗带
      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.

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      e.g. 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。

19. 导线；连接线
      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.

20. （报纸或电视、电台的）要闻，头条
      The lead story or lead in a newspaper or on the television or radio news is the most important story.

lead的反义词

      e.g. 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。
      e.g. 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。

21. see also: leading;-led. to lead someone astray
       -> see astray
      one thing led to another -> see thing
      to lead the way -> see way

相关词组：lead offlead onlead on tolead up to

1. 铅
    Lead is a soft, grey, heavy metal.

    e.g. ...drinking water supplied by old-fashioned lead pipes.
           由老式铅管输送的饮用水

2. 枪弹；子弹；枪子儿
    Lead is sometimes used to refer to bullets.

lead的解释

    e.g. Eventually Bogart pumps him full of lead.
           最后博加特开枪扫射，把他打成了马蜂窝。

3. （铅笔的）笔芯
    The lead in a pencil is the centre part of it which makes a mark on paper.