英汉词典

left 基本解释

• adj. 左边的；左派的；剩下的
• adv. 在左面
• n. 左边；左派；激进分子
• v. 离开（leave的过去式）

left 词态变化

left 中文词源

来自拉丁语laevus,左边。

left 英文词源

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.).

left 词组搭配

left 英文释义

1. location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east;

"she stood on the left"

2. those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare

3. the hand that is on the left side of the body;

"jab with your left"

4. the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left

5. a turn to the left;

"take a left at the corner"

left 双语例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

left 实用场景例句

(sport 体)a left back/wing

左后卫 / 边锋

牛津词典

a left hook

左钩拳

牛津词典

Fewer people write with their left hand than with their right.

用左手写字的人比用右手的人少。

牛津词典

I broke my left leg.

我的左腿骨折了。

牛津词典

the left side of the field

田地的左边

牛津词典

The university is on the left bank of the river.

大学在河的左岸。

牛津词典

Take a left turn at the intersection.

在十字路口向左转。

牛津词典

Turn left at the intersection.

在十字路口向左拐。

牛津词典

Look left and right before you cross the road.

左右看一看，然后再过马路。

牛津词典

He's giving away money left, right and centre.

他到处赠款。

牛津词典

She was sitting on my left .

她坐在我的左边。

牛津词典

Twist your body to the left, then to the right.

先向左转体，再向右转体。

牛津词典

Take the next road on the left .

在下一个路口向左拐。

牛津词典

To the left of the library is the bank.

图书馆的左边是银行。

牛津词典

Take the first left.

在下一个路口向左转。

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(British English)to take a left

往左拐

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(North Amercian English)to hang/make a left

向左拐弯

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The Left only has/have a small chance of winning power.

左派取得政权的机会渺茫。

牛津词典

a left-leaning newspaper

思想左倾的报纸

牛津词典

She is on the far left of the party.

她是这个党的极左分子。

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He hit him with two sharp lefts.

他给了他两记猛烈的左手拳。

牛津词典

Is there any gin left?...

还有杜松子酒吗？

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He's got plenty of money left...

他还剩有大把的钱。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

In Britain cars drive on the left.

在英国，汽车靠左行驶。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the brick wall to the left of the conservatory...

温室左边那面砖墙

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the traditional parties of the Left...

传统的左翼政党

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The government's industrial policy has been fiercely attacked by the left.

政府的工业政策遭到了左派的猛烈抨击。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

After Mrs Thatcher's first election victory in 1979, Labour moved sharply to the left...

1979年撒切尔夫人首次大选获胜后，工党的路线明显左转。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

There will be a radical swing to the right or the left.

将出现极左或极右的情况。

柯林斯高阶英语词典