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a. 左边的, 左倾的, 左侧的, 左派的 adv. 在左面 n. 左, 左面, 左派 leave的过去式和过去分词

发音

US /ˈlɛft/
IE /ˈlɛft/
UK /ˈlɛft/
/ˈlɛf/
/ˈlɛfʔ/
其它 /lɛf/

词形变化

left, right, goodnights lefts 复数 lefts further left 比较级 lefter leftest leftmost farther left 比较级 more left 比较级 lefter 比较级 furthest left 最高级 farthest left 最高级 most left 最高级 leftmost 最高级 leftest 最高级

别名

L l. LAE LAK

教材释义与例句

名词

左边；左派；激进分子

political parties and groups that support the ideas and beliefs of socialism.They usually want large industries to be owned by the state, and to use taxes to help solve social problems.

形容词

左边的；左派的；剩下的

your left side is the side of your body that contains your heart

副词

在左面

释义与例句

n. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    The left side or direction.

  2. 2.

    The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.

    政治

    The Left left workers behind, thinking they had a winning demographic coalition. It hasn't really worked out for them yet.

  3. 3.

    The left hand or fist.

  4. 4.

    A punch delivered with the left fist.

    政治 体育 军事
  5. 5.

    A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).

    体育
v.
  1. 1.

    simple past and past participle of leave (“depart, separate from; (cause or allow to) remain”).

    余下

    剩下

    There's not much food left.

  2. 1.

    simple past and past participle of leave (“permit”).

    We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.

adj. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←

    左

    Near-synonym: port

    The left side.

  2. 2.

    Anticlockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.

    The road up ahead contains a left bend.

    Rotate the bolt to the left to loosen it.

  3. 3.

    Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.

    The Eiffel Tower is on the left bank of the Seine.

  4. 4.

    Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.

    政治
adv. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    On the left side.

    左边

    在左边

  2. 2.

    Towards the left side.

    向左

    Turn left at the corner. NO! Your other left.

  3. 3.

    Towards the political left.

    The East Coast of the US leans left in elections.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

left field left hand left wing

反义词 1

right

上位词 10

place turn hand position turning paw parcel sect faction tract

下位词 1

stage left

整体词 1

outfield
形容词

同义词 5

odd remaining leftover left-hand unexpended

反义词 2

right center

近义相关 10

near port liberal left-handed nigh left-hand left-wing leftist far-left leftish

参见 4

liberal socialist left-handed socialistic
副词

反义词 1

right

相关短语

leave out 省去, 遗漏, 不考虑 leave over 剩下, 留下 leave behind 不带, 留下, 遗留, 超过 leave off 停止, 不再穿 leave aside 不管,不考虑,把…搁到一边 left identity left field 出乎意料的；怪诞有趣的 left wing 左翼,激进派;左边锋 left over [计]剩余 left arm orthodox left arm unorthodox left and right left back

词源

From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), obsolete Dutch lucht, leftsch, lefts, lefs (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), archaic Low German lucht (“left”).

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