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.
[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); NAmEˈleftoʊvər/noun1[usually plural ]food that has not been eaten at the end of a meal 吃剩的食物;残羹剩饭2an 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·overadjective[only before noun ]SYN
surplus
◆Use any leftover meat to make a curry.要是有剩肉就做咖哩菜。leftoverleftoversleft·over/ˈleftəʊvə(r); NAmEˈleftoʊvər/
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 noun1leftovers [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 anymoreSYN hangoverleftover from The headmaster was a leftover from the Victorian era.
WDF
leftover
[ˈleftəʊvə(r)]
n12246
1258
126
311
429
341
51
j9990
1804
157
465
631
466
85
ADJ8594
72009
NOUN10241
52205
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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