Lee

[liː] or [li]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the side of something that is sheltered from the wind.

(noun.) American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870).

(noun.) soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818).

(noun.) leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794).

(noun.) United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926).

(noun.) United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973).

(noun.) United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970).

(noun.) United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957).

錄入:帕特里斯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To lie; to speak falsely.

(n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.

(n.) A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship.

(n.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather; as, the lee side or lee rail of a vessel.

校對:菲利斯

同義詞及近義詞：

a. To leeward (opposed to weather).

n. Leeward, lee side, side sheltered from the wind.

整理:诺里斯

解釋/意思:

n. (Spens.) a river: also the same as Lea.

n. the quarter toward which the wind blows.—adj. as in Lee′-side the sheltered side of a ship.—ns. Lee′-board a board lowered on the lee-side of a vessel and acting like a keel or centre-board to prevent her from drifting to leeward; Lee′-gage the sheltered or safe side:—opp. to Weather-gage; Lee′-shore the shore opposite to the lee-side of a ship; Lee′-tide a tide running in the same direction as the wind is blowing.—adj. Lee′ward pertaining to or in the direction toward which the wind blows.—adv. toward the lee.—n. Lee′way the distance a ship is driven to leeward of her true course: a falling behind.—Make up leeway to make up for time lost; Under the lee on the side sheltered from the wind under shelter from the wind.

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