left1 /left/ ●●●S1W1adjectiveadj [only before noun]
1SIDEyour 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
2SIDEon 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
3have two left feetinformalCLUMSY 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 doingused to say that one part of a group or organizationdoes not know what the other parts are doing 各自为政,互不通气
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left• Is there any milkleft?• Joe only had $8 left.• In the postcardJack wears his cocoa-brown suit and white hat and is held by his leftarm, slightly aloft.• She pinched herself on her left biceps and yelped with pain.• Doubleclick on it with the leftbutton.• my leftfoot• If Tracey leaves, I'll be the only girlleft in the class.• Jones scored with only two minutesleft in the fourthquarter.• 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 leftshoulderfanning 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 ●●●S3W3adverbadv
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 gravelstreambed.• Veerleft and left again, passing the road that leads into FishCanyon.• 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 ●●●S3W3 noun
1the left/somebody’s leftthe 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.
2(from) left to rightfrom 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 ClanSkates.• Number them in sequence 1,2, 3 etc, left to right on each line.• The basicmechanism 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.
4.HIT[countableC] a hit made with your left hand 左手拳OPP right
5take a left (also hang a leftAmerican EnglishAmE) to turn left 左转
Take the next left (=turn left at the next road).
下一个路口左拐。
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take a left• The fastdisappearingfigures of the two girlswaved back then disappeared as the biketook 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 hugedetour to the east.• On the back seat the two sherryglassesclinked as Rufus took a left turn rather too sharply.• We took a left on Houston, a left on Sullivan, then we backtracked to MacDougal.
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 blastseared two co-workers and left him with second-and third-degreeburns from his knees to his scalp.• You mean you just upped and left like that!• Why have so many left the older urbancores?• More than 70,000 families have left the system over the past two years, savingtaxpayers over $ 100 million.• All that's now left to show of the nights activity, are the tyre marks on the road.