喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a line of people moving, and one figure out in front: the others take their direction from that position. Leader names whoever or whatever occupies it — sometimes because they are in charge, sometimes just because they are ahead, and in a few technical uses simply because they come first.

可以想成：一列人往前走，最前面有一個身影，後面的人看著他決定方向。leader 就是佔住那個位置的人或東西——有時候…更多收起可以想成：一列人往前走，最前面有一個身影，後面的人看著他決定方向。leader 就是佔住那個位置的人或東西——有時候是因為他管事，有時候只是因為他跑在前面，在幾個專業用法裡則單純因為它排在最前頭。

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跑在最前面的那個

把「在最前面」單獨拿出來，不管有沒有人跟隨：比賽跑第一的、市場賣最好的，都站在那個位置上。這一支講的是名次，不是權力。

leader (in a race) · noun · B1

The person, team, or animal that is winning a race or competition at a particular moment.

領先者

音樂團體裡帶頭的位置

樂團裡也有那個大家跟著走的位置：小樂團由團長決定曲目、帶著大家進；管弦樂團則由第一小提琴手坐在指揮旁邊，用弓和呼吸帶其他弦樂。

band leader · noun · B1

The person who leads a group of musicians, especially a small band, often playing an instrument too and deciding what music the group performs.

樂團團長；樂隊指揮

報紙最前面的那篇

報紙上代表報社立場的那篇文章排在言論版的最前面，帶著整份報紙的態度走，英式英文因此稱它 leader（完整說法是 leading article）。

leader (newspaper editorial) · noun · B2

British English: an article in a newspaper, usually written by the editor, that gives the newspaper's opinion about a news story.

社論

技術用語：排在最前面的那一段

這兩個用法裡沒有人也沒有比賽，只剩下「在最前面」這件事：帶子最前面那截先穿進機器，樹最前端那根枝條先往上長。都是技術場合的專門說法。

tape leader · noun · C1

A short piece of blank tape at the start of a reel, used to thread the tape through a machine before the recording begins.

(捲式錄音帶開頭的)導帶

Also in this word

leader (in charge) · noun · A2

A person who is in charge of a group, organization, or country, and who decides what the group should do.

領導者；領袖

原始詞典資料28 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。

Leadername

  • 1

    A surname originating as an occupation for a person who led a horse and cart.

  • 2

    A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which joins the (Canterbury) Waiau.

  • 3

    A town surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Happyland No. 231, western Saskatchewan, Canada, originally named Prussia.

  • 4

    A populated place in Adams County, Colorado, United States.

leadernoun/ˈliː.də(ɹ)/

  • 1

    Any person who leads or directs.

    • In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
  • 2

    Any person who leads or directs.

    • Follow the leader.
  • 3

    Any person who leads or directs.

    • We elected her team leader.
    • America needs not only an administrator, but a leader - a pathfinder, a blazer of the trail to the high road that will avoid the bottomless morass of crass materialism that has engulfed so many of the great civilizations of the past.
  • 4

    Any person who leads or directs.

    • Leader of the House of Commons
    • Senate Majority Leader
  • 5

    Any person who leads or directs.

    • The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.
  • 6

    entertainmentlifestylemusicAny person who leads or directs.

  • 7

    entertainmentlifestylemusicAny person who leads or directs.

  • 8

    An animal that leads.

    • The gesture of licking and nipping a leader's muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it.
另外 16 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    An animal that leads.

    • Still there are many passages in his [Donne's] writings, where it is plain that he forgot to pull in his leaders; and they gallop away with him at times over hill and dale, over ploughed land and waste.
  • 10

    An animal that leads.

    • How proud felt Pierre: In fancy’s eye, he saw the horse-ghosts a-tandem in the van; “These are but wheelers”—cried young Pierre—“the leaders are the generations.”
  • 11

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

    • A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole."
  • 12

    Someone or something that leads or conducts.

  • 13

    journalismmediaSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

  • 14

    fishinghobbieslifestyleSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

  • 15

    broadcastingfilmmediaSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

    • If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool. Do not rewind so much that the leader disappears into the cassette.
  • 16

    datedbroadcastingcinematographyfilmSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

    • The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater.
  • 17

    businessmarketingSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

  • 18

    mediaprintingpublishingSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

  • 19

    mediaprintingpublishingSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

  • 20

    fishinghobbieslifestyleSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

    • when two wheels geer together, the one which communicates the motion to the other is called the driver or leader; and the wheel impelled is the follower
  • 21

    businessminingSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

  • 22

    nauticaltransportSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

  • 23

    engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

  • 24

    climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesSomeone or something that leads or conducts.

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。