leftovers

英 [ˈlɛftˈəʊvəz]

美 [ˈlɛfˌtoʊvərz]

n.  吃剩的食物; 残羹剩饭; 遗留物; 残存物; 遗留下来的风俗习惯
leftover的复数

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柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 残羹剩饭；剩菜；吃剩的食物
  You can refer to food that has not been eaten after a meal asleftovers.
  1. Refrigerate any leftovers...
     把剩菜放进冰箱里。
  2. 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。
• ADJ 剩余的；用剩的；吃剩的
  You useleftoverto describe an amount of something that remains after the rest of it has been used or eaten.
  1. ...leftover pieces of wallpaper...
     剩下的墙纸
  2. Leftover chicken makes a wonderful salad.
     剩下的鸡肉可做成一盘美味色拉。
• N-COUNT 残存物；遗留物
  If you say that something isa leftover froma 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.
  1. ...a leftover from the time our planet was first formed...
     我们这个星球形成之初的遗迹
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• food remaining from a previous meal
  1. he had leftovers for dinner last night

双语例句

• She cleared away the dishes and leftovers [ the tea-things].
  他把盘子和剩菜[茶具]收走了。
• At my grandma's, I sometimes had leftovers and it was my grandpa who ate them.
  那是我有时会剩饭，在姥姥家时我所有的剩饭都是姥爷吃的。
• At supper time, I warmed up some leftovers, and mixed them together into a bowl for my sons.
  到吃晚饭时，我把剩菜剩饭热了热，胡乱搅和了一碗来对付儿子们。
• Americans hate to waste food. And they can always take their leftovers home without being embarrassed.
  美国人不喜欢浪费食物。他们可能经常把剩饭剩菜带回家，不必感到尴尬。
• Mother concocted a rich dinner from leftovers.
  母亲用剩余的食物做了一顿丰盛的晚饭。
• He cobbled together a meal from leftovers in the fridge.
  他胡乱用冰箱里剩下的东西做了一顿饭。
• There aren't any leftovers! You ate everything.
  没有任何吃剩的东西！你把所有的东西都吃光了。
• I'll never be able to wrap leftovers again.
  我以后再也不用保鲜膜了。
• You stay with olive. there's some leftovers in the fridge.
  你和奥莉夫呆着，冰箱还有些剩菜。
• I always like to work on leftovers, doing the leftover things.
  我一向喜欢拿剩余的东西来创作，做剩余物的作品。