1. 1第一手的、親身的

    Firsthand describes information, knowledge, or experience that you got yourself, directly — not something someone told you about. A firsthand account of an event comes from someone who was actually there.

core核心畫面

組成first + hand — like information passing 'from hand to hand', firsthand means it reached you at the very first hand, straight from the source.

同家族的字

  • secondhandshares the same 'hand' pattern, but means information (or goods) that passed through someone else first

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

firsthandadj/ˈfɜːstˌhænd/

  • 1

    Direct, without intermediate stages.

    • firsthand knowledge
    • I recently received a firsthand report from an old friend — John A. Keel — who until last year was as skeptical a newshound as I have known.
  • 2

    Not previously owned or used; contrasted with secondhand.

    • a firsthand copy

firsthandadv/ˌfɜːstˈhænd/

  • 1

    Directly or from personal experience.

    • Hell and tarnations, I've known them for muddleheads and blockheads half my life, and firsthand, but I sure didn't expect them to take leave of their senses, insulting our office of President, making our Party into a white demagogue's party, slapping the Negro vote in the face.
    • In the course of three intensive days in and around Guiyu's four villages, the small investigative team witnessed firsthand what passes for recycling of e-waste in Asia.

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