单词	lee
释义	leelee /liː/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINlee Origin: 1 Old English hleo2 1300-1400 Old French lie, from Medieval Latin lia Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► in/under the lee of something A lone cat was padding almost invisibly along in the lee of a low wall. Observed examples of these relationships occur sometimes in the lee of cliffs. The horse landscape Today in a horse landscape horses steam in the lee of thorn hedges on soaking fields. The strange, fixed weather vane that stands in the lee of the vicarage at Rennes-le-Chateau. The unclothed, except when swimming, stayed in the background, secluded in the lee of a dune. They were standing in the lee of a hedge in the corner of an oil-seed field. Thirty years ago it had been just another village hiding in the lee of the Wolds. ► the lees 1in/under the lee of something next to something, and protected from the wind by that thing:  We sat in the lee of a tall hedge.2the lees technical the thick substance that collects at the bottom of a bottle of wine
随便看	orientalist orientate orientated orientation oriented orienteering Orient Express orifice origami origin original originality originally original sin originate originator Origin of Species oriole Orkney Orlando Orly ormolu ornament ornamental ornamentation

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