2a hangover from somethingREMAIN/BE LEFTsomething from the past that still exists or happens but is no longer necessary or useful 旧时遗留之物〔已不需要或有用〕
This feeling was a hangover from her schooldays.
这种情感是她学生时代遗留下来的。
an institution which is a hangover from Victorian times
维多利亚时代留存下来的机构
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a hangover from something• Huge business debt is the hangover from the buyoutmania of the 1980s.• The beat, a hangover from the early Metropolitan Police as well as from the older watch system, had clearly definedfeatures.• SYSTEM.INI is a hangover from Windows 3 and has been retained for compatibility reasons.• It is a hangover from those long gone days when it was actually used for darningsocks!• This, it is suggested, is a hangover fromVictorian and Colonial days.• The dispute over nuclearwaste is a hangover from the last hours of the Conservative government in 1997.• However, this was merely a hangover from the past; and after the middle of the century even these paymentsceased.• But nothing delights him more than his futures markets, which are something of a hangover from his trading days.• She was a hangover from the old days, when he had had to hustle the stuff himself.
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hangover• I was grateful, as I had never before experienced what is euphemistically called a hangover.• Could you try to keep the noise down? I've got a hangover.• After all you had to drink last night, I'm surprised you don't have a hangover.• The company's debt is a hangover from its attempts to expand too rapidly.• She knew that her feeling of awkwardness in social situations was a hangover from her schooldays• I hope it gave them an almightyhangover.• Whatever one's political leanings, the threat of seriousdisruption from the miners, union seemed quite evidently an ideologicalhangover.• Extravitamins, especially B. And I think the medical social worker, once she's over her presenthangover.• The plants that grew over their grave are believed to remedyhangovers.• Kevin woke up the next day with a terriblehangover.• It's the hangover from twenty-four hours of daftbehaviour.
had a ... hangover• Elaine had a hangover and the shrillringing of the telephone made her head ache even more.• With the wild night, after two months, sobriety, he had a hangover would stiffen an eel.• When Maria knocked on the door at half past five I woke as if I had a hangover.• I had a hangover that was mutating into some kind of braindisorder.• She had a hangover already and she hadn't even finished drinking.