| 单词 | to be left |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be left (b) transitive. In passive without a sense of agency. to be left: to remain to be used or dealt with; (in indirect passive) to have remaining to one (or it) (also with with). to have left: to have remaining to one (or it). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > remain or be left [verb (intransitive)] to be leftOE leaveOE abidea1393 bidec1400 remainc1425 resta1500 OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xv. 37 Quod superfuit de fragmentis tulerunt septem sportas plenas : & þæt gelæfed wæs of screadungum genomon seofo ceulas fulla. OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) iv. 246 Genim cwicenne fox & seoð þæt þa ban ane beon læfed [L. relinquantur]. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 225 (MED) Al was youen, faire and wel, Þat him was leued no catel. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxii. 8 Ȝif Esau comme to þe ton company & smyte it þe toþer company þat is laft schall be sauid. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5401 Es vs noght leued bot erth bar. 1403 in F. C. Hingeston Royal & Hist. Lett. Reign Henry IV (1860) I. 158 I have nought ylafte with me over two men. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 18 Þei gedriden seven berlepis of relif þat was laft. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 107 All my shepe ar gone, I am not left oone. 1514 Mem. Constables Tournay in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. iv. 7 What time they have paid al their duty, many a one have not a peny left to convey himself for the three months to come. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 67 For, what place is left now for honestie? where lodgeth goodnes? 1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. G2 I haue nothing, nothing, left, I owe euen for the clothes vpon my backe. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. ix. 208 Upon the draught of his Pond, not one Fish was left. 1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 31 He put what was left, together with my little Stock, into that unfortunate Bottom. 1751 W. Blennerhassett New Hist. Eng. I. vi. 185 In this general Revolt, Alfred was left with a few Domesticks only. 1775 Duchess of Northumberland Short Tour 39 There is nothing now left but two trumpet birds. 1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 285/1 If you do not make haste to return, there will be little left to greet you, of me, or mine. 1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 264 Persons who..have..very little liver left. 1865 N. Brit. Rev. June 394 He was left with only twelve snakes or war-galleys. 1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 370/1 Of the garden shrubs which had been planted about them not one was left but an old low-spraying white rose-bush. 1923 Crisis Dec. 60/1 She was left with less than a dollar with which to celebrate Christmas. 1956 Phoenix (Arizona) Republic 24 May 61/ We're given money to play black jack... After it's over we have to turn in any money we have left. 1988 T. Wynne-Jones Fastyngange 230 The ball had little life left in it. 2014 New Yorker 23 June 30/1 Tech companies that were dying would hire temps..to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off. < as lemmas |
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