| 单词 | through many hands |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthrough many hands a. through a person's hands (also †hand), through the hands of a person: so as to be handled or dealt with by the specified person. through many hands (and variants): via many people, via numerous intermediaries. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] > specifically a person through a person's hands (also hand)c1330 by the hand(s) of1639 c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 1035 Erst þow schelt pase þourȝ min hond. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. clxxxii/1 The money..paste throughe his handes and his treasourers. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 346 They are able in one day to make two hundred Harquibushes..although there be no Harquebush that goeth through lesse than ten hands at the least. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures iv. 8 The things of God..lose their value and force, when they are sifted through so many hands. 1709 J. Bagford in MS Rawl. Let. 21 lf. 8 All of them from ye Bookes themselues which haue run throw my handes. 1778 A. Lee Let. 9 Jan. in R. H. Lee Life A. Lee (1829) II. 127 To call those to an account, through whose hands I know the public money has passed. 1862 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies I. viii. 215 His numbers having suffered corruption during their passage through so many hands. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §6. 408 Plot and approval alike passed through Walsingham's hands. 1947 M. McLuhan Let. Dec. (1987) 191 Two books on popular culture are in process of circulation through editorial hands. 1970 A. K. Armah Fragments iv. 112 I've had six, maybe seven students pass through my hands who really had something. 2006 Vanity Fair July 95/1 It has emerged that the forged Niger documents went through the hands of the Italian military intelligence service. < as lemmas |
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