離開崗位或慣例
離開的不是一個地點，而是一個位置或一條路線：本來待在那個職位、照著那套做法，現在走開了。
leave a job or role · verb · B1
To leave an organization or job, especially when someone stops holding a role or position.
離職；卸任
核心畫面
Picture a train pulling out of the platform at the time printed on the board. The word is about leaving, but with a formal, scheduled feel — which is why it lives on departure boards and in announcements rather than in conversation. English then uses that same leaving for away from a rule, from a job, and (very gently) from life itself.
可以想成：火車照著看板上印的時間駛離月台。這個字講的是「離開」，但帶著正式、按表操課的感覺——所以它出現在時刻表和廣…更多收起
可以想成：火車照著看板上印的時間駛離月台。這個字講的是「離開」，但帶著正式、按表操課的感覺——所以它出現在時刻表和廣播裡，不太出現在閒聊中。英文接著把這份莊重的離開，用在偏離慣例、離開職位，以及（非常委婉地）離開人世上。From the picture
委婉地說「離世」
把「離開」用在生命上，是刻意的委婉：不直接說死亡，而說他啟程走了。
depart this life (die) · verb · B1
To die — a very formal and gentle way of saying that someone's life has ended (usually in the fixed phrase depart this life).
辭世；去世
Also in this word
leave on a journey · verb · B1
To leave a place, especially when you are starting a journey, for example on a train, bus, or plane.
出發；離開
原始詞典資料11 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。
departverb/dɪˈpɑːt/
- 1
To leave.
- […] he that hath no ſtomacke to this feaſt, Let him depart, […]
- The glory is departed from Israel.
- 2
To set out on a journey.
- And soo she receyued hym vpon suffysaunt seurte / so alle her hurtes were wel restored of al that she coude complayne / and thenne he departed vnto the Courte of kyne Arthur / and there openly the reed knyghte of the reed laundes putte hym in the mercy of syre Launcelot and syr Gawayne
- Elizabeth saw her friend depart for Port-Breedy, […]
- 3
To die.
- […] his Tongue, Sounds euer after as a ſullen Bell Remembred, knolling a departing Friend.
- Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
- 4
To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.
- For youth departs, and pleasure flies, And life consumes away,
- An extraordinary joie de vivre had come over them all as soon as the shaky feeling departed from their legs.
- 5
To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.
- His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.
- to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading
- 6
To go away from; to leave.
- [...] he [...] did pray them only to do no thing against the honor of God, & rather to depart the territories of his empire, then to suffer their consciences to be forced.
- Then, departing the palace, he [Thomas Becket] asked the king's immediate permission to leave Northampton; [...]
- 7
aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo lose control of an aircraft; to "depart" (sense 5) from controlled flight (with the aircraft as the direct object)
- The envelope protection system allows the pilot to maneuver at high angles of attack without the risk of departing the airplane
- 8
obsoleteTo divide up; to distribute, share.
- and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne.
- Then fortified hee his trenches, and departed them in foure quarters, wherein he made good store of fires, in such distance one from another, as are woont to be made in a campe.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoleteTo separate, part.
- Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them[…].
- I .N. take thee .N. to my wedded wife, to haue ⁊ to holde from this day forwarde, for better, for wurſe, for richer, for poorer, in ſickenes, and in health, to loue, and to cheriſhe, til death vs departe: according to Goddes holy ordeinaunce: And therto I plight thee my trouth.
departnoun/dɪˈpɑːt/
- 1
obsoleteDivision; separation, as of compound substances.
- 2
obsoleteA going away; departure.
- at my depart for France
- Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart Which with thy name begins, since their depart, Whether in the English Provinces they be, Or drinke of Po, Sequan, or Danubie,
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。