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单词 to have a hand for
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to have a hand for (also at)
17. Capacity of doing something with the hands, and hence of adeptness or ability more generally; skill, ability, knack; a particular skill or talent. Esp. in to have a hand for (also at).
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > a bodily skill
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a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 24 (MED) Be he neuer in hyrt so hauer of honde.]
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxviii. 221 Me seiþ þese han a ‘good honde’, þat is to menynge good craft of writynge oþir good lett[r]ure oþ[ir] peyntynge [MS lecture of poyntynge].
1539 H. Latimer Let. 2 Apr. in Serm. & Remains (1845) (modernized text) II. 416 You be indeed scius artifex, and hath a good hand to renew old bottles.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 297 I cannot but take notice of his unlucky Hand, whenever he meddles with Authors.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais v. xx I have no hand at making of Speeches.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 68 I had always a hand at carpentry.
1859 W. G. Simms Cassique of Kiawah xx. 193 He's got a hand for a-most anything.
1881 E. D. Brickwood in Encycl. Brit. XII. 197/1 The ‘hand for crust’ which is denied to many cooks and cannot be learned.
1920 H. L. Mencken Prejudices 2nd Ser. i. 21 He has a hand for pretty verses.
1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 Apr. h1 ‘I had quite a hand for it,’ the White House pastry chef conceded.
2006 N. Singer Chasing Wolf iii. 75 He got quite a hand for picture painting and I done told him that I think so.
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