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The word "leftover" can be used as a plural noun to refer to uneaten food from a meal, or as an adjective meaning remaining after the rest has been used or eaten. It can also be a count noun referring to something that remains from a past period.

The word "leftover" can be used as a plural noun to refer to uneaten food from a meal, or as an adjective meaning remaining after the rest has been used or eaten. It can also be a count noun referring to something that remains from a past period.

word leftover
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leftover ★☆☆☆☆
/le̱ftoʊvə(r)/
1
[N-PLURAL 复数名词]残羹剩饭;剩菜;吃剩的食物 You can refer to food that has not been eaten after a meal as leftovers .
  • Refrigerate any leftovers...

    把剩菜放进冰箱里。

  • The only food I ever got was the family's leftovers.

    我所得到的唯一食物就是这家人的残羹剩饭。

2
[ADJ 形容词]剩余的;用剩的;吃剩的 You use leftover to describe an amount of something that remains after the rest of it has been used or eaten.
  [ADJ n]
  • ...leftover pieces of wallpaper...

    剩下的墙纸

  • Leftover chicken makes a wonderful salad.

    剩下的鸡肉可做成一盘美味色拉。

3
[N-COUNT 可数名词]残存物;遗留物 If you say that something is a leftover from a past period of time, you mean that it has its origin there and still exists even though most other things connected to that time have disappeared.
  [N from n]
  • ...a leftover from the time our planet was first formed...

    我们这个星球形成之初的遗迹

  • He dragged a foot when he walked, a leftover from polio.

    他走路时一瘸一拐的,那是小儿麻痹的后遗症。


Oxford left·over / ˈleftəʊvə(r) ; NAmE ˈleftoʊvər / noun 1 [usually plural ] food that has not been eaten at the end of a meal 吃剩的食物;残羹剩饭 2 an object, a custom or a way of behaving that remains from an earlier time 遗留物;残存物;遗留下来的风俗习惯 SYN
relic
◆ He's a leftover from the hippies in the 1960s. 他是 20 世纪 60 年代嬉皮士的残余分子。
▶ left·over adjective [only before noun ] SYN
surplus
◆ Use any leftover meat to make a curry. 要是有剩肉就做咖哩菜。
leftover leftovers
left·over / ˈleftəʊvə(r) ; NAmE ˈleftoʊvər /
LDC
leftover1 adjective
leftover2 noun
leftoverleft‧o‧ver1 /ˈleftəʊvə $ -oʊvər/ adjective [only before noun]
Examples
Thesaurus
remaining after all the rest has been used, taken, or eaten:  leftover vegetables a few pieces of leftover carpet
leftover1 adjective
leftover2 noun
leftoverleftover2 noun 1leftovers [plural] food that has not been eaten at the end of a meal:  Give the leftovers to the dog.2[singular] something from an earlier time that still remains, even though it is not really useful or important anymore SYN  hangoverleftover from The headmaster was a leftover from the Victorian era.
WDF

leftover

[ˈleftəʊvə(r)]

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Spoken:

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leftovers[2512]
残留物(40%),残余的(33%),剩饭(27%)
n.残留物;吃剩的饭菜;剩余物
adj.残余的;吃剩的

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