| 单词 | be left |
| 释义 | be leftbe left (also have something left)REMAIN/BE LEFT if something is left, it remains after everything else has gone, been taken away, or used 剩下，剩余；留下来 I’ve only got a few dollars left. 我身上只剩几美元了。 There were a couple of seats left at the back. 后面还剩几个位子。 We don’t have much time left. 我们没有多少时间了。 He pointed to what was left of the house (=used when very little is left). 他指着房子的残骸。 All that was left was a pile of bones. 剩下的只是一堆骨头。 be left over After we’ve paid the bills, there’s never much left over. 我们付完账单总是所剩无几。 They ate some bread rolls left over from the night before. 他们吃了前一天晚上剩下的几个小圆面包。 Examples from the Corpus be left• I still have three chapters left to read.• Is there any coffee left?• In each case contestants are voted out one at a time by their colleagues and by viewers until just two are left.• One on each side for the short distance that was left.• He was left in feeble health, unemployed and with a wife, three-year-old daughter and a newly-born one.• Coats, bags and shoes were to be left in the corridors and not brought in to the hall.• By 5 o'clock there was hardly anyone left in the office.• The inculcation of political orthodoxy and instruction of a more coercive nature was left strictly in the hands of the Party.• That was left to a Commission on Admissions, which spent the summer and fall wrangling bitterly over the details.• Scarcely a single social problem was left untouched.• After expenses and a donation to a charity, he was left with about $ 424,000. → be left at leave1(2) |
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