left是什么意思_left怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north;"my left hand"
"left center field"
"the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream"

not used up;"leftover meatloaf"
"she had a little money left over so she went to a movie"
"some odd dollars left"
"saved the remaining sandwiches for supper"
"unexpended provisions"

intended for the left hand;"I rarely lose a left-hand glove"

of or belonging to the political or intellectual left

Adverb:

toward or on the left; also used figuratively;"he looked right and left"
"the political party has moved left"

中英词源

left 左边的

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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.).

词态变化

复数 lefts;

权威造句

1. As I sidestepped, the bottle hit me on the left hip.: 我侧一步要躲闪的时候，瓶子打中了我的左髋部。

2. I picked first all the people who usually were left till last.: 我先挑出了所有通常留到最后的人。

3. She dusted herself down and left to build her own career.: 她重振旗鼓去开创自己的事业了。

4. They also left a card, imprinted with the name Sean Lynch.: 他们还留下了一张名片，上面印着肖恩·林奇的名字。

5. I left Texas and said good riddance to all that.: 我离开了得克萨斯州，总算摆脱了那里的一切。

近反义词

adj.

communist

left-hand

left-wing

相似短语

be left v. 被遗弃

left for vbl.出发去

on the left 在左边

the left n.左边

Align Left 左对齐

right and left adj.左右方的 adv.左右方

Left Arrow 左箭头键

Left Column 左列

left abdomen 左侧腹部

left adjoint 左伴随

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