left

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɛft/    美 /ˈlɛft/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The left side or direction.
  2. The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.
    — The Left left workers behind, thinking they had a winning demographic coalition. It hasn't really worked out for them yet.
  3. The left hand or fist.
  4. A punch delivered with the left fist.
    — The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.
  5. A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of leave (“depart, separate from; (cause or allow to) remain”). form-of,participle,past
    — There's not much food left.
  2. simple past and past participle of leave (“permit”). form-of,participle,past
    — We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.
形容词 adj.
  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: ←
    — Near-synonym: port
  2. Anticlockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.
    — The road up ahead contains a left bend.
  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. Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
    — It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
副词 adv.
  1. On the left side. not-comparable
  2. Towards the left side. not-comparable
    — Turn left at the corner. NO! Your other left.
  3. Towards the political left. not-comparable
    — The East Coast of the US leans left in elections.

词形变化

further left comparative farther left comparative more left comparative lefter comparative furthest left superlative farthest left superlative most left superlative leftmost superlative leftest superlative Left alternative Left alternative lefts plural Left alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
aleft allemande left audience left escalefter flush left flush left and right give one's left nut go left hard-left house left left-about left arm orthodox left arm unorthodox left atrium left back left bank left bower left bracket left brain left-brainer left-click left coast left coset left-drag left-edge deletion left eigenvalue left eigenvector lefteous leftern left exact left face left field leftfield left fielder left-footed left-footer left-half left hand left-hand left-handed lefthanded left hook left hooker left ideal left identity leftie left inverse left join left-justified left lane camper left lane hog left lane hogger left lane hugger left lateral left main leftmost left nullspace left-of-centre left outer join left-recursive left shift left-to-right left turn left ventricle left ventricular ejection time leftward leftwards left wing leftwise over the left over the left shoulder right and left right-to-left the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing two left feet two left hands alternative left alt-left antileft centre-left far-left far left hard left left anarchism left anarchist leftard Leftbook left communism left communist leftish leftism leftist left-leaning left-libertarian left-libertarianism leftneck leftness leftoid leftosphere Leftpondia LeftTube leftugee lefturd Leftwaffe left-wing Lexit New Left post-left regressive left regressive leftism uberleft ultraleft dirtbag left left and right please turn left stage left swipe left Copenhagen left hang a left lefty loony left Michigan left Pittsburgh left proper left top left to the left your other left

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Middle English left, variant of laft (“remaining, left”), from Old English lǣfed, ġelǣfed, past participle of lǣfan (“to leave”). More at leave.
词源 3
From Middle English levit, ilevet, y-levyd, from Old English ġelȳfd, ġelȳfed, past participle of Old English ġelȳfan, lȳfan (“to allow, permit”), equivalent to leave (“to give leave to, allow, grant, permit”) + -ed.
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