預先留出空間
「讓它過」也可以是事先替它留位子：在計畫裡先空出時間、錢或份量，讓需要的時候有得用。
set aside (time, money, food) · verb · B1
To make sure you keep enough time, money, or food for a purpose.
預留
核心畫面
You can picture a gate that you choose not to block: someone wants to do or have something, and you let it through instead of stopping it. Every other use of 'allow' is some version of this — leaving room, not standing in the way.
可以想成一道你選擇不去擋住的門：有人想做某件事、想拿某樣東西，你沒有攔下來，就讓它過了。allow 其他的用法，都是…更多收起
可以想成一道你選擇不去擋住的門：有人想做某件事、想拿某樣東西，你沒有攔下來，就讓它過了。allow 其他的用法，都是這個「不擋、留出空間讓它發生」的不同變化。From the picture
認可為對的
把「讓它過」用在判斷上：承認某個答案、說法或做法合規、站得住腳，就放它通過。
accept as correct or valid · verb · B1
To accept that something is correct, true, or fits the rules.
認可
客氣地請求放行
反過來用：不是你放別人過，而是你客氣地請對方讓你來幫忙。
allow me (polite offer) · verb · B1
A polite way of offering to do something for someone.
請容我（幫忙）
Also in this word
let something happen · verb · B1
To let someone do or have something, or let something happen, instead of stopping it.
允許
make something possible · verb · B1
To make it possible for something good or useful to happen.
使能夠
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
allowverb/əˈlaʊ/
- 1
To let one have as a suitable share of something.
- to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest
- […] he needed a great deal of money, but his uncle only allowed him two thousand roubles a year, which was not enough, and for days together he would run about Moscow with his tongue out, as the saying is.
- 2
To present something as possible or reasonable.
- The event allows of only one interpretation.
- 3
To permit, to give permission to.
- I will allow my son to be absent.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
- 4
To not bar or obstruct.
- Although I don't consent to their holding such meetings, I will allow them for the time being.
- Smoking (is) allowed only in designated areas.
- 5
To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion; to say something one agrees on in the context of a larger disagreement or reluctance.
- to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow an appeal
- You must allow that disagreeing about politics puts a strain on a relationship.
- 6
To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
- to allow a sum for leakage
- How much will you allow on my old jalopy?
- 7
To make an allowance, to take into account when making plans.
- When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.
- 8
To render physically possible.
- The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill.
- A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoleteTo praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
- Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers
- We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.
- 10
obsoleteTo sanction; to invest; to entrust.
- Therefore so please thee to return with us, And of our Athens—thine and ours—to take The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks, Allow'd with absolute power, and thy good name Live with authority. So soon we shall drive back Of Alcibiades the approaches wild, Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up His country's peace.
- 11
obsoleteTo like; to be suited or pleased with.
- How allow you the model of these clothes?
- 12
lawTo decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).
- to allow an objection
- to allow an appeal
- 13
To forgo bothering with, to let slide.
- Easy on violence, now I doubt it I could’ve banged this face but allowed it
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。