lee

FREQ #1338

n. 背风处, 避风处, 下风处, 保护, 庇护 a. 避风的, 背风的, 下风的, 保护的

发音

US /liː/

词形变化

lees 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.

    航海 交通
  2. 2.

    The side of the ship away from the wind.

    航海 交通
  3. 3.

    A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.

    the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship

  4. 4.

    Calm, peace.

  5. 1.

    Lees; dregs.

    废旧 不可数
  6. 1.

    Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”).

    废旧
adj.
  1. 1.

    Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.

    地质 航海 交通

    lee side, lee shore, lee helm

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

leeside

上位词 2

face side
形容词

近义相关 1

leeward

相关短语

lee shore n. 下风岸 Lee Roy lee shores Lee County lee gage lee gauge Lee Vining Lee algorithm Lee Garden Hill 利园山 lee cloth Lee Creek Lee Moor Rosy Lee Robert Lee under the lee

词源

From Middle English lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw (whence also Proto-Slavic *xlěvъ), from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin calēre (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit शरद् (śarad, “autumn”)).

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