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left

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left1 /left/ ●●● S1 W1 adjectiveadj [only before noun]  
1  SIDEyour left side is the side of your body that contains your heart 〔身体〕左侧的 OPP right
 She held out her left hand.
她伸出左手。
 a scar on the left side of his face
他左脸上的伤疤
2  SIDEon the same side of something as your left side 左边的，左面的，左方的 OPP right
 Take the next left turn.
下一个路口左转。
 the left bank of the river
河的左岸
 a pile of papers on the left side of the desk
桌子左边的一叠文件
3  have two left feet informalCLUMSY to move in an awkward way when you are running or doing a sport 〔跑或运动时〕行动非常笨拙
 a tall, clumsy-looking boy with two left feet
样子愚鲁、行动笨拙的高个子男孩
4. the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing used to say that one part of a group or organization does not know what the other parts are doing 各自为政，互不通气
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left• Is there any milk left?• Joe only had $8 left.• In the postcard Jack wears his cocoa-brown suit and white hat and is held by his left arm, slightly aloft.• She pinched herself on her left biceps and yelped with pain.• Doubleclick on it with the left button.• my left foot• If Tracey leaves, I'll be the only girl left in the class.• Jones scored with only two minutes left in the fourth quarter.• How much milk is left in the fridge?• By 5 o'clock there was no one left in the office.• At meals and prayers she sat slightly behind his left shoulder fanning him solicitously and always looking at him.• the left side of the page• How much time do we have left to finish this?• a left turn
left2 ●●● S3 W3 adverbadv  
SIDEtowards the direction or side that is on the left 向左，朝左 OPP right
 Turn left just after the school.
过了那所学校马上左转。
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left• Turn left and first on your left.• We turned left and followed the gravel stream bed.• Veer left and left again, passing the road that leads into Fish Canyon.• Meanwhile, Eric had turned left and pulled away, driving along the High Street towards the top end of the town.• I turned left and walked up the High Street.• Turn left at the stop light.• Turn left on this and follow for 1/2 mile to junction with main drive of Witley Court.• At mile marker 142, turn left on to Coleman Road.
left3 ●●● S3 W3 noun  
1  the left/somebody’s left the side of your body that contains your heart 左侧，左方，左面 OPP right
on/to the left (of something)
 Take the next road on the left.
在下一个路口向左转。
 Our house is just to the left of the school.
我家就在学校左边。
on/to somebody’s left
 On your left you can see the Houses of Parliament.
在你的左边可以看到议会大厦。
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the left/somebody’s left• As the train left, looking at her watch, she tried not to think that Edmund was by now already surely married.• The mechanism requires some form of communication between the right and left eyes.• They varied only according to whether the approach was from the right or left.• He placed the food on the kang and left dispiritedly.• The murder is perfectly executed, except that the baseball bat left at the scene of the crime is sticky with fingerprints.• A: It is going to still be difficult to heal the wounds that the war left.• While pressure was maintained in front, other units swung to the right and left.• It broke up the crew and left the cameraman shaking underneath his camera.
2  (from) left to right from the left side to the right side of something 从左到右
 The photo shows, from left to right, his daughters Molly, Fiona, and Anne.
照片上从左到右依次是他的女儿莫莉、菲奥娜和安妮。
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(from) left to right• Other winners are, left to right, .• Below, left to right: Davey Philips of Clan Skates.• Number them in sequence 1,2, 3 etc, left to right on each line.• The basic mechanism is to build an edge from left to right.• Run your finger along under the words as you read, so that the child learns that reading goes from left to right.• The group photograph shows, from left to right:.• Years ago, teams could pick up the free-agent menu and read it left to right.
3  the left/the Left PPGpolitical parties and groups that support the ideas and beliefs of socialism. They usually want large industries to be owned by the state, and to use taxes to help solve social problems 左派政治团体，左派 OPP right
 He has support from the Left.
他有左派的支持。
 politicians on the left of the party
该党的左派政客
 The party is moving further to the left.
这个党越来越左了。
4. HIT[countableC] a hit made with your left hand 左手拳 OPP right
5  take a left  (also hang a left American EnglishAmE) to turn left 左转
 Take the next left (=turn left at the next road).
下一个路口左拐。
Examples from the Corpus
take a left• The fast disappearing figures of the two girls waved back then disappeared as the bike took a left hand bend.• A few miles further on, I took a left on to a B road which curved up even higher.• Number 18, straight out here eleven miles; take a left and then straight up that motherfucking mountain.• He damn nearly took a left, made a huge detour to the east.• On the back seat the two sherry glasses clinked as Rufus took a left turn rather too sharply.• We took a left on Houston, a left on Sullivan, then we backtracked to MacDougal.
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left• It has had to invent a left with which to scare itself.• The man on his left had been doing a scarf for a year, she said.• To his left ran a modest lane which meandered northward to several small villages.• You are a man of the left, yet you are in a government backed by a conservative party.• The entrance to the freeway is on the left.• Below her a gigantic cat head also dozes, while a furtive, headless male figure hurries off to the left.• Back, then to the left.• To the left of the church is an old shoe factory.• You can get a ticket at the booths on your left.
left4  
x-refthe past tense and past participle of leave1 leave 的过去式和过去分词
Examples from the Corpus
left• I would stink of cabbage and ammonia and sweat for days after I left.• He left behind a closetful of fine suits and white shirts, which Magnus also put to the torch.• A waiter led her to the table she'd booked downstairs, and left her to study the menu.• The blast seared two co-workers and left him with second-and third-degree burns from his knees to his scalp.• You mean you just upped and left like that!• Why have so many left the older urban cores?• More than 70,000 families have left the system over the past two years, saving taxpayers over $ 100 million.• All that's now left to show of the nights activity, are the tyre marks on the road.
Origin left1
Old English “weak”
left1 adjectiveadjleft2 adverbadvleft3 nounleft4
Chinese
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