left-handed

• adj. 左撇的；用左手的；笨拙的

1. using or intended for the lefts 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. not skillful in physical movement 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"- Mary H. Vorse

a left-handed golfer

左手握杆的高尔夫球手

牛津词典

I'm left-handed.

我是左撇子。

牛津词典

left-handed scissors

左手用的剪刀

牛津词典

a left-handed serve

用左手发球

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She writes left-handed.

她用左手写字。

牛津词典

I noticed she was left-handed...

我注意到她是个左撇子。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

There is a place in London that supplies practically everything for left-handed people.

伦敦有一个地方卖左撇子用品，几乎什么都有。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

That man is left handed man.

那个人是个左撇子.

辞典例句

All polar bears are left handed.

所有的北极熊都是左撇子.

期刊摘选

We also don't want the dog anticipating a right or left handed delivery.

我们也不希望狗儿能提前预判出会用哪只手给出奖励.

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Another important aspect is to play against left handed players.

另一个重要方面是同左手选手比赛.

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I think it's due to being left handed that he's got terrible writing.

我想他的书写这么糟糕是因为他是左撇子。

柯林斯例句

即左手的，左撇子的。

1. As I sidestepped, the bottle hit me on the left hip.

我侧一步要躲闪的时候，瓶子打中了我的左髋部。

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2. I picked first all the people who usually were left till last.

我先挑出了所有通常留到最后的人。

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3. She dusted herself down and left to build her own career.

她重振旗鼓去开创自己的事业了。

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4. They also left a card, imprinted with the name Sean Lynch.

他们还留下了一张名片，上面印着肖恩·林奇的名字。

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5. I left Texas and said good riddance to all that.

我离开了得克萨斯州，总算摆脱了那里的一切。

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left-handed (adj.)

late 14c., of persons; 1650s of tools, etc., from left (adj.) + -handed. In 15c. it also could mean "maimed." Sense of "underhanded" is from early 17c., as in left-handed compliment (1787, also attested 1855 in pugilism slang for "a punch with the left fist"), as is that of "illicit" (as in left-handed marriage). Related: Left-handedly; left-handedness.