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left-laid

/left-leyd/US // ˈlɛftˌleɪd //

左图,左派,左边的,左派的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting a rope, strand, etc., laid in a left-handed, or counterclockwise, direction as one looks away along it.

Examples

  • Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.

  • Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.

  • Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

  • Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

  • Morris searched for whatever strength was left in his malnourished body.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.

  • The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

  • She had just left the wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville, with 225 passengers on board, of whom but 124 were saved.

  • The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.