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left

英 [left] 美[lɛft]

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adj. 左边的；左派的；剩下的
adv. 在左面
n. 左边；左派；激进分子
v. 离开（leave的过去式）

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词态变化

复数: lefts;

中文词源

left 左边的

来自拉丁语laevus,左边。

英英释意

1. location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east;: "she stood on the left"

2. those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare

3. the hand that is on the left side of the body;: "jab with your left"

4. the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left

5. a turn to the left;: "take a left at the corner"

英文词源

left: left: [13] The Old English word for ‘left’ was winestra. Etymologically this meant ‘friendlier’ (it is related to Swedish vän ‘friend’), and its euphemistic application to ‘left’ is a reminder that historically the left-hand side of the body has been superstitiously regarded as of ill omen. To call it ‘friendly’ (a usage which survives in Swedish vänster and Danish venstre ‘left’) was an attempt to placate the evil forces of the left. (Latin sinister ‘left’ is similarly fraught with negative connotations.

It too had euphemistic origins – it came from a source meaning ‘more useful’ – and it developed the figurative senses ‘unfavourable’, ‘injurious’, etc, taken over and extended by English in sinister [15].) An ancestor of left existed in Old English – left or *lyft. But it meant ‘weak’ or ‘foolish’, and it was not until the 13th century that it came to be used as the partner of right.

Its ultimate origins are not known.
left (adj.): c. 1200, from Kentish and northern English form of Old English lyft- "weak, foolish" (compare lyft-adl "lameness, paralysis," East Frisian luf, Dutch dialectal loof "weak, worthless"). It emerged 13c. as "opposite of right" (the left being usually the weaker hand), a derived sense also found in cognate Middle Dutch and Low German luchter, luft. But German link, Dutch linker "left" are from Old High German slinc and Middle Dutch slink "left," related to Old English slincan "crawl," Swedish linka "limp," slinka "dangle."

Replaced Old English winestra, literally "friendlier," a euphemism used superstitiously to avoid invoking the unlucky forces connected with the left side (see sinister). The Kentish word itself may have been originally a taboo replacement, if instead it represents PIE root *laiwo-, meaning "considered conspicuous" (represented in Greek laios, Latin laevus, and Russian levyi). Greek also uses a euphemism for "left," aristeros "the better one" (compare also Avestan vairyastara- "to the left," from vairya- "desirable"). But Lithuanian kairys "left" and Lettish kreilis "left hand" derive from a root that yields words for "twisted, crooked."

As an adverb from early 14c. As a noun from c. 1200. Political sense arose from members of a legislative body assigned to the left side of a chamber, first attested in English 1837 (by Carlyle, in reference to the French Revolution), probably a loan-translation of French la gauche (1791), said to have originated during the seating of the French National Assembly in 1789 in which the nobility took the seats on the President's right and left the Third Estate to sit on the left. Became general in U.S. and British political speech c. 1900.

Used since at least c. 1600 in various senses of "irregular, illicit;" earlier proverbial sense was "opposite of what is expressed" (mid-15c.). Phrase out in left field "out of touch with pertinent realities" is attested from 1944, from the baseball fielding position that tends to be far removed from the play. To have two left feet "be clumsy" is attested by 1902. The Left Bank of Paris (left bank of the River Seine, as you face downstream) has been associated with intellectual and artistic culture since at least 1893.
left (v.): past tense and past participle of leave (v.).

考试真题

He left his fingerprints all over Apple products.

Things get stolen when it is easy to steal them because they are left lying around unwatched.

ensuring no child is left behind

While the emphasis on teaching to higher, test-driven standards as set in No Child Left Behind resulted in significantly better performance in elementary(and some middle)schools, high schools for a variety of reasons seemed to have made little progress.

When she died in 1916 she left her children 100 million dollars.

The only thing left to do is set up the microphones and speakers. They'll be here in a few minutes.

there's little time left for leisure activities for many Americans

Well, to pick up where we left off last time, I believe we agreed that creativity is a mysterious idea.

The man has left a good impression on her family

A part-time job is a good way to balance costs while ensuring there is enough time left over for both academic subjects and after-class activities.

According to Rae Ann Haight, the program manager for the national-preparedness office at USPS, Smith was fulfilling a request made by some of the home owners to pick up any mail that was left untouched.

As the water is pumped out, the vacant space left is compacted by the weight of the earth above.

Bacteria are carried by various 'media', which can include raw food, moist surfaces where bacteria have been left, our hands or skin and from coughing or sneezing (打喷嚏).

But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay decisions regarding employees were simply left up to their employers, as is the custom in virtually every other industry.

Even in the age of open-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.

In her search to live a life of purpose, Leah left her high-paying accounting job, her husband, and her home.

Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right.

Joy should not be trained out of children or left for after-school programs.

Moreover, some of the objects on the moon are still being used including a laser range reflector left by the Apollo 11 crew.

Much of it was left by American astronauts who landed on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972 during NASA's Apollo missions.

One thing about the moon many people don't know is that it has a lot of garbage on its surface left over from human space exploration.

Researchers can study the garbage left on the moon to see how its materials weathered the radiation and vacuum of space over time.

She worked out that, if the left hemisphere was staying alert to keep guard in a strange environment, then it would react to the irregular beeps by stirring people from sleep and would ignore the regularly timed ones.

So it may seem rather strange that I have returned to college to finish the degree I left undone some four decades ago.

The insect-spraying over the weekend left more than 2 million bees dead on the spot in Dorchester County, South Carolina, where four travel-related cases of zika disease have been confirmed in the area.

The objects left by the Appllo astronauts included the equipment that was no longer needed.

The wide majority of the rest were illegal, unforced entries that resulted from something like a window being left open.

Then, I left my native country of New Zealand to start my career as an English teacher, which eventually brought my dancing life to a halt.

Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot.

Tunisia was targeted last year by three attacks that left 70 people dead and were claimed by Islamic State.

windows of the red bus were left smashed, and blood could be seen on the ground beside the vehicle.

Left alone, it was assumed, the world's rain forests would not only flourish but might even rescue us from disaster by absorbing the excess carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases.

Professors would begin the year by saying, "Look to the right and look to the left.

The first four contestants won only small prizes, but the fifth left with a new luxury car.

She left her own car in Manchester

They have little time left to renew contact with their brothers and sisters.

Drivers routinely collide with deer and there are so many dead bodies left by the side of the road that the town has made it a deal with a local pet cemetery to collect and dispose of the bodies.

A rich stock of manuscripts left by historical figures

She left her work early to get some bargains last Saturday.

Do we still have any pie left from dinner yesterday?

They believe that the nerve endings in the left side of the brain develop faster in girls than in boys, and it is this side of the brain that strongly influences an individual's ability to use language and remember things

There was nothing left except some pie.

He has left his position in the government.

M :I left 20 pages here to copy ,here's the receipt W : I'm sorry ,sir ,but we are a little behind ,could you come back in a few minutes

M : sorry to have kept you waiting ,Madam , I've located your luggage, it was left behind in Paris and won't arrive until later this evening W : oh ,I can't believe this ,have it been to delivered to my hotel then ,I guess Q :what happened to the woman's luggage

It wasn't there when I left Delhi.

It was left behind in the hotel

After that, a few small populations left Africa to populate the rest of the world.

After that, candles are lit alternately from left to right.

Because there was slightly more matter, the collisions quickly depleted all the anti-matter and left just enough matter to create stars, planets, and eventually us.

CucinTech was a company who were very much following the pack, doing what everyone else was doing, and getting rapidly left behind.

Even parents who can see that a trip is little more than a party or celebration may well feel guilt that their child is left behind.

Good leaders left the company, taking Nokia's sense of vision and direction with them.

They have painted half of the cows with eyes and left the other half as normal.

I think that left a big impression on her.

It is the season for some frantic last-minute math一across the country, employees of all stripes are counting backward in an attempt to figure out just how much paid time-off they have left in their reserves.

It was specifically observed that the left side of the brain was more active during deep sleep.

I've often stopped writing a book and left it for a few years.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

My school didn't come pre-packaged like the more popular options, so we were left to take care of ourselves, figuring out city life and trying to complete degree programs that no one was championing for us to succeed in.

Not surprisingly, much of Nokia's most valuable design and programming talent left as well.

Other needles were slipped into my left wrist and, strangely, into my right arm, and then into both my closed eyelids.

Playing sounds into the right ears stimulating the left hemispher of 27 volunteers was more likely to wake them up than if the noises were played into their left ears.

Researchers from Brown University found that a network in the left hemisphere of the brain "remained more active" than the network in the right side of the brain.

The ham is covered in salt to dry and preserve it, and left hung for up to two years.

The more people are on their phones, the fewer people are talking until finally you're the only one left not reading email or checking Twitter.

Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.

When the researchers repeated the laboratory experiment on the second and third nights they found the left hemisphere could not be stimulated in the same way during deep sleep.

A six-month trial will be introduced at Holborn station from mid-April, eliminating the rule of standing on the right and walking on the left.

A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison.

After de-layering in this way, a company may be left with just a top level of senior managers, front-line managers and employees with direct contact with the public.

Aggressive wildfire control has left California forests crowded with small trees that compete with big trees for resources.

Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction, with only a few elderly speakers left.

As they left student life behind, many had a last drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and moved out of small apartments into high buildings.

But in all, only 150 cans will be used up over the cat's lifetime-and we'll still have 100 left over for the next cat.

But soon after retirement, the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes become as boring as the jobs they left.

Five minutes after he arrived, he had an emergency call and left.

From the teacher's point of view, children should be left to decide what to read and how to read.

He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby for other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what was left.

He unfortunately passed away last year due to his cancer, but he left a deep impression on me and gave me the inspiration to pick up my pen again.

However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn't have much money.

I could have left it in the supermarket yesterday, but I'm not sure.

I could only have left it on the G9 bus, which was now speeding in the dark to some unknown station.

I didn't hear the bell, or I would have left earlier.

I grew anxious: what if the family had simply left the cat behind?

I left for the land of warmth and Vitamin C, thinking of beaches and orange trees.

I left my seat quietly, giving him some privacy to finish his conversation.

I thought anything abstract left too much room for argument.

If the monkeys touched the left side of the screen they would be rewarded with seven drops of water or juice; if they went for the circle, they would be rewarded with the sum of the numbers—17 in this example.

If you studied pictures that ancient people left on rock walls and you tried to determine their meaning, you would not detect a deep interest in romance among the artists.

It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out.

Just as I got to the school gate, I realised I had left my book in the cafe.

Like the two little girls growing up at the White House, we made our own beds no one left the house until that was doneand picked up after ourselves.

Many graphs, including bar graphs and line graphs, have two axes that form a corner, usually these axes are the left side and the bottom of the graph.

Material thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a partly written book.

My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack alone.

Nicholas left Grylls a very deep impression because he did the right things in the dangerous situation.

One day, the bombing stopped and the soldiers left.

Only when lily walked into the office did she realize that she had left the contract at home.

Papa, as a son of a dirt-poor farmer, left school early and went to work in a factory, for education was for the rich then.

Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad.

She left before I could even make it to the door to offer my thanks.

She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left.

Someone had left a note under their door during the night.

Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods.

Studies have shown that the right and left ear process sound differently.

The city was crowded with disappointed people with no interest in settling down, and when they heard there were new gold discoveries in alaska, they left dawson city as quickly as they had come.

The explosion had left a hole more than forty miles across—much too huge to be seen from anywhere at ground level.

The gap-year phenomenon originated with the months left over to oxbridge applicants between entrance exams in november and the start of the next academic year.

The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty papers left.

The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it.

Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can that had been left out on the footpath.

This has many implications well beyond the role that parents seem to play in the lives of their children who have left for college.

This meant, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, dragging his heavy instrument case across the campus to the pitying looks of the non-musicians he had left behind.

This newness just left me wanting more.

This upsets me to no end because while all the experts are busy debating about which option is been the people who want to improve their lives are left confused by all of the conflicting information.

Video games can be a poor influence if left in the wrong hands.

We allow them to be left around because we've been ignorant of their value.

Whatever money was left over would be his to keep.

When his phone rang again later, he left his seat to answer it.

You left it by the phone.

A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs.

Among other weaknesses, the measures cities must employ when left to tackle dirty air on their own are politically contentious, and therefore vulnerable.

Avoiding this rather than promoting it should unite the left and right of the political spectrum.

But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.

By February the next year Ms.. Simmons had left the board.

Instead of casting a wistful glance backward at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real costs of our own intelligence might be.

Robert willumstad left citigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO.

The company seems to have concluded that its reputation in Vermont is already so damaged that it has noting left to lose by going to war with the state.

The potential evolution of today's technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it's perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.

The research of till Von Wachter, the economist in Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed: those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise woul

When left alone in the room, the students who did not know which ones would shock them clicked more pens and incurred more shocks than the students who knew what would happen.

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.

词组搭配

have two left feet

be clumsy or awkward

笨手笨脚

left, right, and centre (亦作 left and right 或 right

on all sides

四面八方

deals were being done left, right, and center.
与各方都有秘密勾结。

实用场景例句

(sport 体)a left back/wing: 左后卫 / 边锋

a left hook: 左钩拳

Fewer people write with their left hand than with their right.: 用左手写字的人比用右手的人少。

I broke my left leg.: 我的左腿骨折了。

the left side of the field: 田地的左边

The university is on the left bank of the river.: 大学在河的左岸。

Take a left turn at the intersection.: 在十字路口向左转。

Turn left at the intersection.: 在十字路口向左拐。

Look left and right before you cross the road.: 左右看一看，然后再过马路。

He's giving away money left, right and centre.: 他到处赠款。

She was sitting on my left .: 她坐在我的左边。

Twist your body to the left, then to the right.: 先向左转体，再向右转体。

Take the next road on the left .: 在下一个路口向左拐。

To the left of the library is the bank.: 图书馆的左边是银行。

Take the first left.: 在下一个路口向左转。

(British English)to take a left: 往左拐

(North Amercian English)to hang/make a left: 向左拐弯

The Left only has/have a small chance of winning power.: 左派取得政权的机会渺茫。

a left-leaning newspaper: 思想左倾的报纸

She is on the far left of the party.: 她是这个党的极左分子。

He hit him with two sharp lefts.: 他给了他两记猛烈的左手拳。

Is there any gin left?...: 还有杜松子酒吗？

He's got plenty of money left...: 他还剩有大把的钱。

In Britain cars drive on the left.: 在英国，汽车靠左行驶。

...the brick wall to the left of the conservatory...: 温室左边那面砖墙

...the traditional parties of the Left...: 传统的左翼政党

The government's industrial policy has been fiercely attacked by the left.: 政府的工业政策遭到了左派的猛烈抨击。

After Mrs Thatcher's first election victory in 1979, Labour moved sharply to the left...: 1979年撒切尔夫人首次大选获胜后，工党的路线明显左转。

There will be a radical swing to the right or the left.: 将出现极左或极右的情况。

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have two left feet

left, right, and centre (亦作 left and right 或 right

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