英汉词典

right 基本解释

• adj. 正确的；直接的；右方的
• vi. 复正；恢复平稳
• n. 正确；右边；正义
• adv. 正确地；恰当地；彻底地
• vt. 纠正
• n. (Right)人名；(英)赖特

right 词态变化

right 中文词源

来自古英语 riht,直的，好的，正确的，来自 Proto-Germanic*rekhtaz,直的，来自 PIE*reg,拉直， 升直，词源同 regulate,correct,regal.后由正确的引申词义右边的，以及名词词义公正，正义， 权利等。右边与好的，正确的相联系来自传统观念，参照印度人右手吃饭，左手入厕。

right 英文词源

right

right: [OE] Right goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *reg- ‘move in a straight line’, hence ‘direct’, hence ‘rule’, which also produced English rich and Latin rēx ‘king’ (source of English regal, royal, etc). Combination with the past participial suffix *-to- resulted in Latin rēctus ‘straight, right’, which lies behind English rectify, rectum, etc, and prehistoric Germanic *rekhtaz, which has evolved into German and Dutch recht, Swedish rätt, Danish ret, and English right.

The use of the word as the opposite of left, paralleled in German and Dutch but not in the Scandinavian languages, derives from the notion that the right hand is the ‘correct’ hand to use. (French droit ‘right’ goes back to Latin dīrēctus, a derivative of rēctus.) The derived righteous [OE] etymologically means ‘in the right way’; it was compounded in the Old English period from riht ‘right’ and wīs ‘way’ (ancestor of the modern English suffix -wise).
=> address, direct, raj, rector, regal, regiment, royal

right (adj.1)

"morally correct," Old English riht "just, good, fair; proper, fitting; straight, not bent, direct, erect," from Proto-Germanic *rekhtaz (cognates: Old Frisian riucht "right," Old Saxon reht, Middle Dutch and Dutch recht, Old High German reht, German recht, Old Norse rettr, Gothic raihts), from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line," also "to rule, to lead straight, to put right" (see regal; cognates: Greek orektos "stretched out, upright;" Latin rectus "straight, right;" Old Persian rasta- "straight, right," aršta- "rectitude;" Old Irish recht "law;" Welsh rhaith, Breton reiz "just, righteous, wise").

Compare slang straight (adj.1) "honest, morally upright," and Latin rectus "right," literally "straight," Lithuanian teisus "right, true," literally "straight." Greek dikaios "just" (in the moral and legal sense) is from dike "custom." As an emphatic, meaning "you are right," it is recorded from 1580s; use as a question meaning "am I not right?" is from 1961. The sense in right whale is "justly entitled to the name." Right stuff "best human ingredients" is from 1848, popularized by Tom Wolfe's 1979 book about the first astronauts. Right of way is attested from 1767. Right angle is from late 14c.

right (adj.2)

"opposite of left," early 12c., riht, from Old English riht, which did not have this sense but meant "good, proper, fitting, straight" (see right (adj.1)). The notion is of the right hand as the "correct" hand. The usual Old English word for this was swiþra, literally "stronger." "The history of words for 'right' and 'left' shows that they were used primarily with reference to the hands" [Buck]. Similar sense evolution in Dutch recht, German recht "right (not left)," from Old High German reht, which meant only "straight, just."

The usual PIE root (*dek-) is represented by Latin dexter (see dexterity). Other derivations on a similar pattern to English right are French droit, from Latin directus "straight;" Lithuanian labas, literally "good;" and Slavic words (Bohemian pravy, Polish prawy, Russian pravyj) from Old Church Slavonic pravu, literally "straight," from PIE *pro-, from root *per- (1) "forward, through" (see per).

The political sense of "conservative" is first recorded 1794 (adj.), 1825 (n.), a translation of French Droit "the Right, Conservative Party" in the French National Assembly (1789; see left (adj.)).

right (v.)

Old English rihtan "to straighten, rule, set up, set right, amend; guide, govern; restore, replace," from riht (adj.); see right (adj.1). Compare Old Norse retta "to straighten," Old Saxon rihtian, Old Frisian riuchta, German richten, Gothic garaihtjan. Related: Righted; righting.

right (n.)

Old English riht (West Saxon, Kentish), reht (Anglian), "that which is morally right, duty, obligation," also "rule of conduct; law of a land;" also "what someone deserves; a just claim, what is due; correctness, truth; a legal entitlement, a privilege," from the root of right (adj.1). Meaning "the right" (as opposed to the left) is from mid-13c.; political use from 1825. From early 14c. as "a right action, a good deed." Meaning "a blow with the right fist" is from 1898. The phrase to rights "at once, straightway" is 1660s, from sense "in a proper manner" (Middle English).

right (adv.)

Old English rehte, rihte "in a straight or direct manner," from right (adj.1). Right on! as an exclamation of approval first recorded 1925 in black slang, popularized mid-1960s by Black Panther movement.

right 词组搭配

right 英文释义

1. an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature;

"they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"

"Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt

"a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away"

2. (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing;

"mineral rights"

"film rights"

3. location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east;

"he stood on the right"

4. a turn to the right;

"take a right at the corner"

5. those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged

6. anything in accord with principles of justice;

"he feels he is in the right"

"the rightfulness of his claim"

7. the hand that is on the right side of the body;

"he writes with his right hand but pitches with his left"

"hit him with quick rights to the body"

8. the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right

right 同义词解析

accurate, exact, precise, right, true, correct

这些形容词均含"准确的，正确的"之意。

accurate：指通过谨慎的努力达到符合事实或实际，侧重不同程度的准确性，与事实无出入。

exact：着重在质与量方面的准确，语气比accurate强。

precise：侧重极端准确，更强调细节的精确无误。

right：使用广泛，可与这些词中的correct换用，但常暗示道德、理解、行动等方面的正确。

true：暗指绝对准确，尤指复制品与原件丝毫不差。

correct：最常用词，主要指按一定标准或规则来衡量，没有谬误和差错或无缺点错误。

right, privilege

这两个名词均含"权利"之意。

right： 普通用词，指某人或某物拥有符合法律、道义或道德的权利。

privilege： 指特许或恩施的权利，也指一般人或物所没有的有利条件。

right 双语例句

1. Instead of complaining about what's wrong, be grateful for what's right.

别抱怨不好的事，要对好的事心存感恩。

来自金山词霸 每日一句

2. You'll need to get on the right side of Carmela.

你得讨卡梅拉的欢心。

来自柯林斯例句

3. More people would be attracted to cycling if conditions were right.

如果天气适宜，会有更多的人被吸引到骑自行车的行列中来。

来自柯林斯例句

4. When the right woman comes along, this bad dream will be over.

当有合适的女人出现时，这种胡思乱想就会停止了。

来自柯林斯例句

5. He has a visual impairment in the right eye.

他右眼视力有损伤。

来自柯林斯例句

right 实用场景例句

That's absolutely right...

那绝对正确。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Clocks never told the right time...

钟表显示的时间从来都不准确。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Walking, done in the right way, is a form of aerobic exercise...

走路，如果方法正确的话，也是一种有氧健身运动。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They have computerized systems to ensure delivery of the right pizza to the right place...

他们已经实现了系统的计算机化，以保证比萨的送货准确无误。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He was always to be seen in the right places...

他总是会出现在一些体面的地方。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Through his father, he had met all the right people.

他通过父亲认识了很多正派的人。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Ron has been right about the result of every General Election but one...

罗恩对于历届大选结果都预测对了，只有一次除外。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Is that true? Was she right?...

那是真的吗？她说得没错吗？

柯林斯高阶英语词典

She'd made the right choice in leaving New York...

她离开纽约的决定是正确的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The right decision was made, but probably for the wrong reasons...

作出的决定是正确的，但理由可能是错误的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Ratatouille doesn't taste right with any other oil...

普罗旺斯杂烩用其他任何油炒出来的味道都不正宗。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The name Sue Anne never seemed quite right to Molly...

莫莉总觉得休·安妮这个名字不太好听。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

You were right to do what you did, under the circumstances...

在这种情况下，你做的是对的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The president was absolutely right in ordering the bombing raid.

总统下令发动空袭是绝对合乎道义的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It's not right, leaving her like this...

就这样离开她是不对的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Fox hunting is popular among some people in this country. It doesn't make it right though...

这个国家有些人喜欢猎狐，但是这并不能使其变得名正言顺。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They recognise the urgency of righting the economy...

他们认识到了复苏经济的紧迫性。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Your eyesight rights itself very quickly.

你的视力恢复得非常快。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

We've made progress in righting the wrongs of the past...

我们在纠正过去的错误方面取得了进展。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Having spent 25 years righting his own mistakes, he is anxious that children should not waste opportunities.

他花了25年的时间弥补自己的过失，因此他非常渴望孩子们不要错失良机。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He righted the yacht and continued the race...

他调正了快艇，继续比赛。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The helicopter turned at an awful angle before righting itself.

直升机在恢复平稳之前倾斜得很厉害。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I can't think of anything in my life that's going right...

我想不起我的生活中有任何一帆风顺的事情。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I was pleased with my performance on Saturday — everything went right.

我对自己星期六的表现挺满意——一切顺利。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

She wasn't entirely in the right...

她并非完全占理。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Legally, the local tax office is in the right.

从法律的角度来说，当地税务局的做法是无可厚非的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

We've discovered what's gone wrong and are going to put it right.

我们已经发现了存在的问题，准备加以纠正。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

She confesses to having trouble finding Mr Right.

她承认找不到自己的白马王子。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...bachelors searching for Ms Right.

寻找真命天女的单身汉们

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Ahead of you on the right will be a lovely garden...

在你右前方会有一个美丽的花园。

柯林斯高阶英语词典