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单词 to work with one's hands
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to work (also labour) with one's hands
r. to work (also labour) with one's hands (and variants): to do work that involves using one's hands, esp. as opposed to work that requires more intellectual than physical effort; to be employed in a manual job or trade; to make something by hand.
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c1480 (a1400) St. Paul l. 57 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 30 Aymo recordis In his saw, þat paule ay, fra þe cok craw to þe fyfte our of þe day,..þis oysit ay, with his handis to be wirkand, and to þe nycht syne ay prechand.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cccxxxviii/1 Cryspyn and Cryspynyan..folowed the stappes of saynt powle thappostle, that is to saye, to laboure with their handes for to prouyde to them necessaryly to lyue.
1538 Bible (Coverdale) Eph. iv. C He yt dyd steale, let hym nowe not steal: but rather let hym labour in workynge wyth hys handes that whych is good, that he maye haue where of to geue vnto hym that suffreth nede.
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iv. 17 The Father of Hortensius did keep sheep, and was constrained to work with his hands for his daily bread.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 35 [Johnson:] We work with our heads, and make the boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 311 There are a few, called by the slaves ‘mean whites’, signifying whites who work with the hands.
1874 Contemp. Rev. 23 861 Labouring with their hands from morning to night, and living from hand to mouth, they are..necessarily the most ignorant as well as the poorest.
1903 Everybody's Mag. Jan. 6/1 ‘We have machines here.’ ‘But,’ I almost interrupted, ‘I'd rather work with my hands.’
1979 R. P. Coleman et al. Social Standing in Amer. iii. 53 A white-collar worker can feel superior to ‘people who work with their hands’ even while earning little more or no more than they.
2005 B. Bullington After Break iv. 19 I love a guy who works with his hands and can fix things.
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