left-handed

英 [left 'hændɪd] 美 [left 'hændɪd]

• adj. 惯用左手的；用左手的；笨拙的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. using or intended for the left hand;

   "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"
   "left-handed scissors"
   

2. (of marriages) illicit or informal;

   "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
   

3. (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior

4. rotating to the left

5. ironically ambiguous;

   "a left-handed compliment"
   

6. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands;

   "a bumbling mechanic"
   "a bungling performance"
   "ham-handed governmental interference"
   "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. It should be the third street on you left.
   在你左手的第三条街。
2. Your left thumb suffers a comminuted fracture.
   你左手的拇指是粉碎性骨折。

经典引文

• A left-handed bowler is nearly always a right-handed bat.

  出自：Pall Mall Gazette

词汇搭配

• left-handed compliment 言不由衷的恭维话...
• left-handed quartz 左旋石英
• left-handed thread 倒牙
• left-handed twist 左旋螺旋线,左旋缠度...
• left-handed rotation 左转,左旋
• left handed system 左手系,左手坐标系...
• left-handed screw 左旋螺杆
• left-handed shooter 左手握枪的射手...
• left handed 左手的
• left handed crystal 左晶,左旋水晶...
• left-handed crystal 左晶
• left-handed marriage 贵族男子与平民之婚姻...
• left-handed wife 嫁给贵族的非贵族女子...
• left-handed oath 没有约束力的誓言...

近反义词

【近义词】

• ambiguous 模棱两可的
• anticlockwise 逆时针转的
• counterclockwise 反时针方向(的)...
• circular 圆形的
• round 圆的
• helical 螺旋状的
• spiral 螺旋
• ham-fisted 愚笨的
• heavy-handed 笨手笨脚的
• ham-handed 笨手笨脚的
• bungling 笨拙的
• morganatic 贵贱联婚的
• butterfingered 易滑掉的
• handless 没手的
• levorotary 左旋的
• levorotatory 左旋的
• bumbling 常出差错的

【反义词】

• right-handed 用右手的
• ambidextrous 双手都灵巧的...