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单词 left
释义

left

See also: lëft

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), Low German lucht (“left”).

Alternative forms

  • (political left): Left

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɛft/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛft

Adjective

left (comparative more left or lefter, superlative most left or leftmost)

  1. Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←
    Synonyms: sinister, sinistral
    Antonyms: right, dexter, dextral
    The left side.
  2. (geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
  3. (politics) Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
    • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:
      It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
    Antonym: right
The fruit to the viewer's left is smaller.
Derived terms

left direction:

  • left-hand
  • left-handed
  • leftmost
  • left-to-right
  • left turn (noun)
  • right-to-left

left-wing (politics):

  • dirtbag left
  • far left
  • leftism
  • leftist
  • left-wing
  • New Left
  • regressive left
  • regressive leftism
  • left wing
  • two left feet
Translations
west side of the body when one is facing north

Adverb

left (not comparable)

  1. On the left side.
    Antonym: right
  2. Towards the left side.
    Antonym: right
    Turn left at the corner. NO! Your other left.
  3. Towards the political left.
    Antonym: right
    The East Coast of the US leans left in elections.
Derived terms
  • left turn (interjection, verb)
Translations

Noun

left (plural lefts)

  1. The left side or direction.
    Synonyms: 9 o'clock, port
  2. (politics) The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.
    The Left left workers behind, thinking they had a winning demographic coalition. It hasn't really worked out for them yet.
  3. The left hand or fist.
  4. (boxing) A punch delivered with the left fist.
    • 1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:
      The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.
  5. (surfing) A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
    Antonym: right
Synonyms
  • (political left): left wing, leftists
Derived terms
  • lefty
Translations
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Etymology 2

From Middle English left, variant of laft (“remaining, left”), from Old English lǣfd, ġelǣfd, past participle of lǣfan (“to leave”). More at leave.

Verb

left

  1. simple past tense and past participle of leave (“depart, separate from; (cause or allow to) remain”).
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
    There's not much food left.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English levit, ilevet, y-levyd, from Old English ġelȳfd, ġelȳfed, past participle of Old English ġelȳfan, lȳfan (“to allow, permit”), equivalent to leave (“to give leave to, allow, grant, permit”) +‎ -ed.

Verb

left

  1. simple past tense and past participle of leave (“permit”).
    We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.

References

  • The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology, Walter W. Skeat.

Anagrams

  • FELT, Felt, TEFL, felt, flet

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Etymology

From Middle English left, from Old English lyft.

Adjective

left

  1. left
    • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 11:
      In durk Ich red virst mee left-vooted shoe."
      In the dark I happened first on my left-footed shoe."

References

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129
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