put in the lead

基本解释

Invest targeted resources more aggressively in areas that you think will put you in the lead.
如果認定某一領域將確立公司的領導地位，加大在這些領域的資源投資力度。
You might think running around after children would put parents in the lead on exercise, but in fact non-parents edged in front by 3 per cent.
你可能覺得有孩子的人圍著孩子忙活可以增加運動量，因而是運動最多的人群，但事實是，他們被沒有孩子的人以3%優勢領先。
The international community had been looking to Obama – who put climate change at the top of his agenda – to put America in the lead of efforts to deal with global warming.
由於奧巴馬把氣候變化問題放在其議事日程的優先位置，國際社會一直希望他能推動美國在應對全球變煖的努力上起主導作用。

And then as they become toddlers as they started crawling around, they get that lead dust on their hands from the windowsills in the floors, they put it in their mouth."

That put the Gators in the lead to stay.
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Jack Keane, a former Army vice chief of staff, was also skeptical, particularly about plans to put Iraqis in the lead for military operations.
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