leftover

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left·o·ver1 /ˈleftəʊvə $ -oʊvər/ adjectiveadj [only before noun]

REMAIN/BE LEFTremaining after all the rest has been used, taken, or eaten 剩余的，未用完的；未吃完的

leftover vegetables

吃剩的蔬菜

a few pieces of leftover carpet

剩余的几块地毯

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leftover• Take all your leftover bottles to be recycled.• If liked, extra artist's paint tubes can be made out of leftover fondant, and painted silver once dry.• If you have just small amounts of leftover grapefruit or sweet oranges, you may want to feed them to wildlife.• Ted wrestled the top off a can of chicken meat and put it in a bowl with some leftover macaroni and cheese.• Test the varnish out on a small piece of leftover paper first to make sure that the colours don't run.• His head bobbed like some leftover party balloon Lois had tied to the door handle.• And people, leftover people like - like grubs that've been kept in the dark.• She used leftover scraps of fabric to make a patchwork apron.• There's some leftover soup.• Can astronomers deduce, from the chemical composition of the leftover stars, how big it was?• Lovemaking is not for leftover time.• Use leftover turkey in casseroles and sandwiches.

leftover2 noun

1 leftovers [plural]DFREMAIN/BE LEFT food that has not been eaten at the end of a meal 剩饭菜

Give the leftovers to the dog.

把吃剩的饭菜喂狗。

2 [singular]REMAIN/BE LEFT something from an earlier time that still remains, even though it is not really useful or important anymore 遗留物，残存物 SYN hangover

leftover from

The headmaster was a leftover from the Victorian era.

校长是维多利亚时代的遗老。

left·o·ver1 adjectiveadjleftover2 noun

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