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词汇 longhand
释义 longhand
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈlɒŋ.hænd/ us /ˈlɑːŋ.hænd/
ordinary writing by hand普通书写
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longhand | American Dictionary


longhand
noun[ U ]
us/ˈlɔŋˌhænd/
writing done by hand usually with a pen or pencil:
He wrote the confession in longhand and signed it.

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longhand
Gone are the days of writing in longhand in higher education notebooks!
Today, most police forces tape-record interviews and statements, but some years ago all statements were written down, in longhand, by a policeman, then read and signed by the suspect.
I think it is the inability of the reporters to transcribe their reports into longhand, and to deliver them to the printers.
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They are very long-winded, having to be taken down in longhand or sometimes straight on to a typewriter.
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If it did not do so, the writing of shorthand would in all human probability be no quicker than longhand.
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A note of the evidence taken in longhand, and corrected by the witnesses, will be available for inspection at the close of the inquiry.
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The reporter took down the proceedings in longhand.
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I am sure that the gentleman who did it wrote it in longhand and had no knowledge of shorthand.
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But in order to clarify their own minds and order their thoughts, many people will write out their intended speeches in longhand beforehand.
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One constituent recently had a lengthy statement taken down in longhand by a police sergeant.
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Unfortunately, he was by then very old and his health was deteriorating, but he wrote a speech for me in longhand.
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If he wanted to take notes, he has had to do so in longhand.
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They had to write their letters in longhand because there were no secretaries, and they were and are hopelessly overworked.
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This would give time for a review of the system of local government finance, which is longhand for power.
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There is another capacity in which his amendment is incredibly interesting, in that it actually uses the longhand for the problem of dyslexia.
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