usually in singularSomething transferred or resulting from a previous situation.
遗留物
the slow trading was a carry-over from the big losses of last week
交易迟缓是上周重大亏损的后遗症。
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The Second Republic [1979-83] was a carry-over of the first.
Anyway, this is a carry-over from yesterday's post.
But the organisation has to prove it is more than a carry-over from the old Central Bank.
‘Only a carry-over of silage and hay from last winter helped to stop a feeding crisis on farms, but the problem is how are the animals to be fed this winter.
The human body is said to contain many organs that are a carry-over from our evolutionary development - the appendix, the coccyx, tonsils, ear muscles, etc.
I don't think there's ever any carry-over from one game to the next.
The lower slaughter means the carry-over into 2005 will be higher than last year and could have implications for the trade during the early months of the New Year.
So if adult consumption is declining, that has had some carry-over to youth consumption.
This may be a carry-over from their former religious environment.
In northern climates where rainwater is the sole water source, it may be necessary to oversize the cistern to provide carry-over during a significant portion of the winter when snow falls instead of rain.
One of the problems that cricket faces in Africa is a perception that it's a carry-over from previous colonial regimes.
All of this is a sensible carry-over to the second publication of what is being said in the House.
Since October 2001 there have been 153 manuscripts under consideration, including carry-overs from the previous editors.
What we have here is a carry-over from the first-past-the-post system.
There was a carry-over of sediment from the clarifiers into the River Nore.
Yet the system as reformed, partly by the New Deal and partly by a carry-over of wartime measures, did perform wonderfully well in the two decades after World War II.
Greater nitrogen carry-over may occur due to poor performance of the previous crop.