英汉词典

1. 离开;启程;动身;出发
    When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.

    e.g. Our tour departs from Heathrow Airport on 31 March and returns 16 April...
           我们这次旅行于 3月 31 号从希思罗机场出发，4 月 16 号返回。
    e.g. In the morning Mr McDonald departed for Sydney...
           麦克唐纳先生上午启程前往悉尼。

2. 背离;违背
    If you depart from a traditional, accepted, or agreed way of doing something, you do it in a different or unexpected way.

    e.g. Why is it in this country that we have departed from good educational sense?...
           为什么在这个国家我们背离了教育上明智的选择？
    e.g. It takes a brave cook to depart radically from the traditional Christmas menu.
           一个厨师要彻底颠覆传统的圣诞节菜肴是需要很大勇气的。

3. 辞（职）；离（职）
    If someone departs from a job, they resign from it or leave it. In American English, you can say that someone departs a job.

    e.g. Lipton is planning to depart from the company he founded.
           利普顿打算离开他创立的那家公司。
    e.g. ...a number of staff departed during his reign as rector of the Royal College of Art...
           在他担任皇家艺术学院院长期间有好几名教师辞职了。

4. 去世;离开人世
    When someone departs this life, or departs this earth, they die.

    e.g. He departed this world with a sense of having fulfilled his destiny.
           他带着一种已完成使命的满足感离开了这个世界。