| 单词 | at second hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat second hand a. at second hand (†also at the or a second hand, on the second hand): (to buy, receive, learn, etc.) from another than the maker, or original vendor (of goods), or the primary source (of information, etc.). In the 18th cent. also (? after French) to hear from second hand.In the first quot. as may be a mistake for at; but perhaps second hand may mean ‘second purchaser’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adverb] > second-hand at second hand1613 on the second hand1665 second hand1849 society > communication > information > action of informing > [adverb] > learn from other than original source to hear from second hand1753 1474 Coventry Leet Bk. 401 Also the sise ys that no maner of man nor woman schall not stalle nor Regrate no markett..wher thorough the markett shuld be the Wers and the pore Comons gretely hurte to by as the ijde honde. 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Biiv Whose thredde-bare knowledge beeing bought at the second hand, is spotted..and defaced, through translaters rigorous rude dealing. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 44 The substance of the tale is true. I told you that I had it at the second hand. 1613 Bodl. Day-bk. (MS.) lf. 18 A note of such Books as were bought at London of Jhon Edwards at second hand. 1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) 62 So that I may say the eye receives the forme of the object at a second hand, as it were from the medium. 1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 2 You have done wisely to decline the correspondence of Sir Marm. Langdale at a second hand, thro' the consul's conveyance. 1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 132 Cathay, where they are forced to take their Rye, Hemp,..and Musk, on the second hand of the Chinois. 1681 H. Dodwell Disc. Sanchoniathon's Phœn. Hist. 12 He quoted him by memory, and at the Second hand. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. v. 184 For, to say the Truth, there is no kind of Flattery so irresistible as this, at second Hand . View more context for this quotation 1753 G. Washington Jrnl. in Writings (1889) I. 481 I have heard from second-hand, that they intend to make no allowance for the fish we left there. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. iii. 35 ‘Well, we don't want one of your father's sermons at second-hand,’ replied the midshipman. < as lemmas |
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