| 词汇 | secondhand |
| 释义 | secondhand adjective, adverb[ not gradable ] (alsosecond-hand)us/ˈsek·əndˈhænd/ secondhandadjective, adverb[not gradable] (OWNED BEFORE)owned or used in the past by someone else: a secondhand car I bought it second-hand at that bookstore on Elm Street. secondhandadjective, adverb[not gradable] (LEARNED INDIRECTLY)learned or heard about from someone else rather than directly from the person involved: She said she had heard second-hand reports of officers sleeping on the job. Examples of secondhandsecondhand A man dressed in a secondhand overcoat, in a used and worn out suit, a man whose face no longer had any human characteristics. Yet these sources are used little, and then usually at secondhand, and some illustrations are curiously chosen. In sum, across the five representative questions examined here, the inclusion of evidentials projects interviewees' responses as involving indirect, secondhand knowledge. I can waste hours in a record shop - secondhand or new. I think it is a disgrace that old people have to buy secondhand clothes in charity shops. In addition, he returns to the role of secondhand trade in local networks. I had had some ideas of writing and had bought myself a secondhand typewriter. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that in many cases the forms being discussed are (at least) secondhand, from another analysis of the data. It was to be built of secondhand railway sleepers cantilevering out of a reinforced concrete wall. I could not stake my soul's destiny upon a faith received at secondhand, or on mere probabilities. Yazd and other provincial cities are therefore examples of secondhand foreign influence, which has been channeled through the capital. There can be subtypes of reported evidentials: there are kinds that describe 'secondhand evidence'; 'third-hand evidence'; 'evidence from folklore'; and so forth. The language of the displaced self or the dissolved ego is already secondhand. It should be noted that this was a secondhand report. Broad-based, internally consistent survey responses in a country are likely to be a reflection of personal or secondhand experiences (the experiences of people whom one personally knows). See all examples of secondhand These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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