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单词 leftover
释义 leftover
I. \ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ adjective
Etymology: from the past participle of leave over
: remaining as unused residue
 < put the Thermos bottles back in, and the leftover lobster and things — B.A.Williams >
 < spring has been like leftover winter here — Janet Flanner >
II. noun
(-s)
1. : an unused or unconsumed residue: as
 a. : fragments of food remaining from a meal
  < made supper from the leftovers from dinner — J.B.Benefield >
  < poetry in full retreat … all literature living on sufferance, feeding on leftovers — H.J.Muller >
 b. : a dish prepared from leftovers
  < a pretty appetizing morsel when incorporated with other ingredients for a leftover — Nancy Dixon >
 c. : surplus
  < bedding, cooking equipment and similar supplies presumably can be drawn from the army's leftovers — R.A.H.Thompson >
2. : an anachronistic survival : vestige
 < the forelimbs of the heavy vertical reptiles seem … to have become useless leftovers — Weston LaBarre >
 < an aristocratic leftover in modern government — Mollie Panter-Downes >
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