英语词汇“left”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	left
释义	left I. \ˈleft\ adjective (sometimes -er/-est) Etymology: Middle English luft, lift, left, from Old English left, lyft- (as in lyftādl palsy) weak; akin to Middle Dutch lucht, luft, loft left, Middle Low German lucht 1. a. : of or relating to the hand that in most persons is weaker, to the side of the body on which it is, or to the parts of that side of the body < combat men who looked at a man's left chest before they looked at his face — C.H.Norcross > b. : located on an observer's left or directed as his left hand would point < outflanked the army's left wing > < the left fork of the road looked the more inviting of the two > 2. often capitalized : of, adhering to, or constituted by the left especially in politics < this left government with a cabinet of moderate liberals — F.A.Magruder > < the Communists and their political ally, the Left Socialists — C.A.L.Rich > < fashionable … among many left intellectuals — Philip O'Connor > < the left religious movements … animated by the social gospel — G.A.Almond > < untiring representative of the leftest of left-wingers — Glasgow Herald > < in some respects they are going still lefter — A.A.Berle > • - over the left shoulder II. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English luft, lift, left, from luft, lift, left, adjective 1. a. : the left hand < lashed out with his left — Gregor Felsen > b. : the location or direction lying on the left side of one's body < passed a house on his left > c. : the part (as the wing of an army) that is on the left side of an observer facing in the direction it faces d. : the member of a pair situated or used on the left side 2. a. : left field b. : a boxer's blow with the left fist < broke through the American's defense repeatedly with jolts and spearing lefts — P.J.Cunningham > 3. often capitalized a. : the part of a legislative chamber located to the left of the presiding officer and usually occupied in continental European and other countries having a similar political pattern by members professing a more radical position on political issues than other members < loud applause in the center and on certain benches of the left — D.W.S.Lidderdale > < in the other European countries … the left is occupied by the Communists and Socialists — Enzo Di Cocco > — compare center 3c, right b. : the members of a legislative body occupying the left as a result of their political views < members of the Chamber of Deputies … became tense; the Left became vociferous — A.W.Macmahon & W.R.Dittmar > 4. usually capitalized a. : individuals or groups professing views usually characterized by opposition to and a desire to alter (as by reform or revolution) the established order especially in politics and usually advocating change in the name of the greater freedom or well-being of the common man < the tradition of liberalism, democracy, and socialism belongs to the democratic Left — Simon Paynter > < the totalitarianism of the Left — Howard Rushmore > < his position in the literary Left — Paul Potts > < his contempt for the Right is exceeded only by his contempt for the Left — Bergen Evans > — compare right b. : the symbolic position occupied by persons professing such views : a radical as distinguished from a conservative position < the clericalist threat from the Right drove the earlier governments of the Third Republic … further to the radical Left — Times Literary Supplement > < after an interval of twenty or thirty years the Left of one period becomes the Right of the next — Barbara & Robert North > III. adverb Etymology: Middle English luft, lift, left, from luft, lift, left, adjective : on or to the left < questing neither left nor right — Rudyard Kipling > < as right-center governments continued to ignore reform, the people moved left — New Republic > IV. past of leave
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