handing

hand
/hænd/
(hands)
1. 可数名词 Your hands are the parts of your body at the end of your arms. Each hand has four fingers and a thumb. 手
- I put my hand into my pocket and pulled out the letter. 我把手伸进衣袋，掏出那封信。
2. 单数型名词 The hand of someone or something is their influence in an event or situation. 影响
- The hand of the military authorities can be seen in the entire electoral process. 军方的影响在整个选举过程中都可以看到。
3. 复数型名词 If you say that something is in a particular person's hands, you mean that they are taking care of it, own it, or are responsible for it. 照顾; 掌控
- I feel that possibly the majority of these dogs are in the wrong hands. 我觉得这些狗中大多数可能没有得到适当的照顾。
- We're in safe hands. 我们得到妥善的照顾。
4. 单数型名词 If you ask someone for a hand with something, you are asking them to help you in what you are doing. 帮助
- Come and give me a hand in the garden. 到花园里来给我搭把手。
5. 单数型名词 If someone asks an audience to give someone a hand, they are asking the audience to clap loudly, usually before or after that person performs. 鼓掌
- Let's give 'em a big hand. 让我们为他们热烈鼓掌。
6. 可数名词 In a game of cards, your hand is the set of cards that you are holding in your hand at a particular time or the cards that are dealt to you at the beginning of the game. (纸牌游戏) 手中的牌
- He carefully inspected his hand. 他仔细检查手中的牌。
7. 可数名词 The hands of a clock or watch are the thin pieces of metal or plastic that indicate what time it is. (钟表的) 指针
- The hands of the clock on the wall moved with a slight click. Half past ten. 墙上时钟的指针伴着轻轻的嘀嗒声走着。10:30了。
8. 习语 If something is at hand, near at hand, or close at hand, it is very near in place or time. 在手边; 在眼前
- Having the right equipment at hand will be enormously helpful. 有合适的工具在手边将会极为有用。
9. 习语 If someone experiences a particular kind of treatment, especially unpleasant treatment, at the hands of a person or organization, they receive it from them. 在…的手中 (尤指受到不好的待遇)
- The civilian population was suffering greatly at the hands of the security forces. 这些平民在保安部队的手中吃尽了苦头。
10. 习语 If you do something by hand, you do it using your hands rather than a machine. 手工
- Each pleat was stitched in place by hand. 每个褶子都是手工缝制的。
11. 习语 When something changes hands, its ownership changes, usually because it is sold to someone else. (常指某物因卖给他人) 易主
- The firm has changed hands many times over the years. 这家公司几年来已多次易主。
12. 习语 If you have your hands full with something, you are very busy because of it. 为...忙得不可开交
- She had her hands full with new arrivals. 她为这些新来的忙得不可开交。
13. 习语 If someone gives you a free hand, they give you the freedom to use your own judgment and to do exactly as you wish. 便宜行事
- He gave Stephanie a free hand in the decoration. 他让斯蒂芬妮在装潢时便宜行事。
14. 习语 If you get your hands on something or lay your hands on something, you manage to find it or obtain it, usually after some difficulty. 搞到 [非正式]
- Patty began reading everything she could get her hands on. 帕蒂开始阅读她能搞到的所有东西。
15. 习语 If two people are hand in hand, they are holding each other's nearest hand, usually while they are walking or sitting together. People often do this to show their affection for each other. 手拉手
- I saw them making their way, hand in hand, down the path. 我看到他们手拉手沿着小路朝前走。
16. 习语 If two things go hand in hand, they are closely connected and cannot be considered separately from each other. 密切相关
- For us, research and teaching go hand in hand. 对于我们来说，研究与教学密切相关。
17. 习语 If you have a hand in something such as an event or activity, you are involved in it. 参与某事
- He thanked all who had a hand in his release. 他感谢了所有参与解救他的人。
18. 习语 If two people are holding hands, they are holding each other's nearest hand, usually while they are walking or sitting together. People often do this to show their affection for each other. 手拉手
- She approached a young couple holding hands on a bench. 她走近一对手拉手坐在长凳上的年轻情侣。
19. 习语 The job or problem in hand is the job or problem that you are dealing with at the moment. 处理中的
- The business in hand was approaching some kind of climax. 这件正在处理中的事情正接近某种关键时刻。
20. 习语 If a situation is in hand, it is under control. 在控制之下
- The Olympic organizers say that matters are well in hand. 奥运会组织者说各项事务完全在掌控之中。
21. 习语 If you lend someone a hand, you help them. 帮助某人
- I'd be glad to lend a hand. 我乐意帮忙。
22. 习语 If someone lives hand to mouth or lives from hand to mouth, they have hardly enough food or money to live on. 勉强糊口
- I have a wife and two children and we live from hand to mouth on what I earn. 我有妻子和两个孩子，我们靠我挣的钱勉强糊口。
23. → see also hand-to-mouth
24. 习语 If you tell someone to keep their hands off something or to take their hands off it, you are telling them in a slightly aggressive way not to touch it or interfere with it. 不许碰; 不许干涉
- Keep your hands off my milk. 不许碰我的牛奶。
25. 习语 If you do not know something off hand, you do not know it without having to ask someone else or look it up in a book. 马上; 无需查询地 [口语]
- I can't think of any off hand. 我一下子什么也想不起来。
26. 习语 If you have a problem or responsibility on your hands, you have to deal with it. If it is off your hands, you no longer have to deal with it. 由某人处理/不再由某人处理
- They now have yet another drug problem on their hands. 他们现在又在处理另一个与毒品有关的问题。
27. 习语 If someone or something is on hand, they are near and able to be used if they are needed. 现成的
- There are experts on hand to give you all the help and advice you need. 有现成的专家随时为你提供所需的一切帮助和建议。
28. 习语 You use on the one hand to introduce the first of two contrasting points, facts, or ways of looking at something. It is always followed later by "on the other hand" or "on the other." 一方面
- On the one hand, if the body doesn't have enough cholesterol, we would not be able to survive. On the other hand, if the body has too much cholesterol, the excess begins to line the arteries. 一方面，如果身体没有足够的胆固醇，我们将无法生存；另一方面，如果体内胆固醇过多，多余的胆固醇就开始让动脉变厚。
29. 习语 You use on the other hand to introduce the second of two contrasting points, facts, or ways of looking at something. 另一方面
- The film lost money; reviews, on the other hand, were by and large favourable. 这部电影赔了钱；但从另一方面来看，评论大体上是积极的。
30. 习语 If a person or a situation gets out of hand, you are no longer able to control them. 失去控制
- His drinking got out of hand. 他饮酒已失去控制。
31. 习语 If you dismiss or reject something out of hand, you do so immediately and do not consider believing or accepting it. 不假思索地
- I initially dismissed the idea out of hand. 我起初不假思索地一口否决了这个主意。
32. 习语 If you take something or someone in hand, you take control or responsibility over them, especially in order to improve them. 对某人/某事负责
- She took the twins in hand, encouraging them to turn their thoughts to the future. 她对这对双胞胎负起责任，鼓励他们要多想想未来。
33. 习语 If you say that your hands are tied, you mean that something is preventing you from acting in the way that you want to. 受到阻碍
- Politicians are always saying that they want to help us but their hands are tied. 政客们总说他们想帮助我们，但是却受到阻碍。
34. 习语 If you try your hand at an activity, you attempt to do it, usually for the first time. (通常指初次) 尝试
- He tried his hand at fishing, but he wasn't really very good at it. 他尝试过钓鱼，但他真的不在行。
35. 习语 If you turn your hand to something such as a practical activity, you learn about it and do it for the first time. 学做某事
- ...a person who can turn his hand to anything. …一个什么事都可以学着去做的人。
36. 习语 If you wash your hands of someone or something, you refuse to be involved with them any more or to take responsibility for them. 洗手不干; 不再负责
- He seems to have washed his hands of the job. 这种工作他似乎已洗手不干了。
37. 习语 If you win hands down, you win very easily. 轻易取胜
- We have been beaten in some games which we should have won hands down. 我们曾经在一些本应轻易取胜的比赛中落选。
38. with one's bare hands →see bare
39. to shake someone's hand →see shake
40. to shake hands →see shake

hand
/hænd/
(handing, handed,hands)
习语
1. 及物动词 If you hand something to someone, you pass it to them. 递...给...
- He handed me a little rectangle of white paper. 他递给我一小条白纸。

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