hand-me-down
英语[编辑]
其他形式[编辑]
- hand-me-on (过时)
词源[编辑]
其包含短语hand down。
名词[编辑]
hand-me-down (複數 hand-me-downs)
形容词[编辑]
- 二手的，使用过的
- 1967, Lou Reed （歌詞與音樂）, “All Tomorrow's Parties”, 出自 The Velvet Underground & Nico, 演出者 The Velvet Underground:
- And what costume shall the poor girl wear / To all tomorrow's parties? / A hand-me-down dress from who knows where
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- 1983, 19th of March, Presidential Radio Address by Ronald Reagan
- I don't want America's recovery and security to be sacrificed on an altar of discredited hand-me-down theories. And if you'll help us, they won't be.
- 2022年11月2日，Paul Bigland，“New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”，出自 RAIL，期號969, 頁號58:
- The old Pacers have vanished, replaced by a mix of hand-me-down fleets.
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动词[编辑]
hand-me-down (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 hand-me-downs，現在分詞 hand-me-downing，一般過去時及過去分詞 hand-me-downed)
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- 1963, Celebrity Register: An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables, Harper & Row，頁號 40:
- “See into life, don’t just look at it” is her [Anne Baxter’s] creditable credo, hand-me-downed from her famous architect grandfather, the late Frank Lloyd Wright。
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- 1966, Mike Cohen, The Bright Young Man, J. B. Lippincott Company，頁號 27:
- The carpet was a montage of fade and unfade indicating that when new it had been used in another office—probably Mr. Barlowe’s—and then hand-me-downed when the decorators had cut loose.
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- 1990, Jan E. Dizard, Howard Gadlin, The Minimal Family, The University of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN，頁號 41:
- The traditional family was poorly adapted to consumption: its raison d’être was rooted in sharing, hand-me-downing, and cooperative endeavor.
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- 1998, Oakley M. Hall, Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades: A Mystery Novel, Berkeley, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN，頁號 124:
- He had scraped together the funds to traipse off to the latest Bonanza camp, to buy speculative stocks, liquor and fine Sacramento meals for his boomer friends and fancy women, while my mother cut pieces of cardboard and canvas into soles to stuff inside our shoes to stop the holes, and hand-me-downed our clothes.
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- 2006, Tom Bailey, Cotton Song, Shaye Areheart Books, →ISBN，頁號 283:
- The first thing Gabe saw as they pulled close was the flashing lights of Ruleton’s two police cruisers parked off to the side of the road—the new one Sheriff Dodd’s, the humble other the battered black-and-white that he’d hand-me-downed to his deputy, Ralph Simpson.
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- 2012, Lee Beck, From a Dark Place, AuthorHouse, →ISBN，頁號 442:
- He could not change the past but he was determined that he would not follow in the grand family hand-me-downed legacy.
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- 2017, Carol Zoref, Barren Island, New Issues Poetry & Prose, →ISBN，頁號 157:
- Instead I changed into a blue skirt and a white blouse with a scalloped collar, hand-me-downs from Marie Dowd that she had gotten hand-me-downed from cousins in Brooklyn who went to Catholic school.
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- 2018, Ty Marshall, “Love Seldom. Trust Never.”, 出自 Goodfellas, Urban Books, →ISBN, chapter one (The Early Years):
- He wore a white dress shirt that was buttoned uncomfortably tight around his neck, a black tie, and an oversized blazer that had been hand-me-downed from one of his older cousins.
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