lee

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
  2. Lees; dregs. obsolete,uncountable
    — A thousand demons lurk within the lee.
  3. Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”). alt-of,obsolete
    — Here, after little less than a month's protracted journey over a distance, by the Chinese itinerary, of 950 lees, and by our own calculation 280 miles, from the canal, we quitted the magnificent Keang to cross the lake […]
  4. The side of the ship away from the wind.
  5. 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
  6. Calm, peace.
形容词 adj.
  1. Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air. not-comparable
    — lee side, lee shore, lee helm

词形变化

lees plural lees plural

词汇关系

反义词
stoss weather windward
衍生词
alee leeboard lee cloth lee-ho leeward leewards leeway Merry Lees 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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