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单词 on the left
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on (also to) the (also my, your, etc.) left
a. The left-hand side, part, or direction. Used chiefly with reference to local position from the point of observation, though also with reference to relative position from the perspective of the object observed. Frequently with the or possessive adjective, and in on (also to) the (also my, your, etc.) left. Cf. left hand n. 1.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > the left
left handa1200
leftc1225
left side1562
left half1625
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > on the right or left
leftward?c1475
on (also to) the (also my, your, etc.) left1594
rightward1801
c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 22 Þe middel sti bituhhe riht & luft þet lut cunnen halden.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 157 Ȝef ani seið wel oðer deð wel. ne maȝen hanan weis loken þiderwart wið richt echȝe Of god heorte. ach winkeð on þet half & bi halt o luft. ȝef þer is eawet to edwiten.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2463 Queder þou ches, on right or left, I sal ta me þat þou haues left.
a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Gen. xxiv. 49 If forsothe other thing plesith, and that seie ȝee, that Y go to the ryȝt or to the left [a1425 L.V. the riȝt side ethir to the left side].
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. 141 Part on the right, part on the left this band Siedgeth it selfe.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 558 Vangard, to Right and Left the Front unfould. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 489 Jove..thunder'd on the left.
1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. ii. i. xix. 76 I saw on the left a hill, which seemed to have been improved by art into a fortress.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 7 The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the Sea came he.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade ii, in Maud & Other Poems 152 Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them,..Volley'd and thunder'd.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 12 We see a wire railway to the left.
1927 F. B. Young Portrait of Clare i. iii. 34 The black dome of the Mawne Road spoil-heap fell away on her left into the tree-softened contours of Mawne Bank.
1963 Times 26 Apr. 16/6 On my left tumbles the brook at the bottom of a deep gully.
2013 Daily News (New Plymouth, N. Z.) (Nexis) 11 Jan. 12 The first tree on the left as you enter the carpark is a handsome whiteywood.
extracted from leftadj.1n.adv.
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