🇬🇧🇨🇳 leftovers - 剩菜 : English Lesson

Meaning of "leftovers" ("剩菜"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Leftovers are the extra food that’s still around after a meal is finished. Instead of throwing it away, we save it in the fridge to eat later.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I found leftovers in the fridge older than my baby brother.

I told my sister the leftovers were haunted so I could eat them all.

Grandma’s leftovers are better than five-star restaurants. Fact.

I found pizza leftovers in the fridge and screamed, “Treasure!”

Thanksgiving in the USA is famous for having tons of leftovers—people eat turkey sandwiches for days!

After the party, Anna packed the pasta into three boxes of leftovers. One box of leftovers she gave to a tired neighbor, another set of leftovers she tucked into the fridge, and the last she named for herself. At midnight, she warmed the leftovers, ate slowly, and sighed—happy the leftovers had saved her from cooking again.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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