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单词 hand something down
释义

hand something down

1Pass something on to a younger person or a successor: songs are handed down from mother to daughter...
  • Of course they can conserve these things only by handing them down, by passing them on to their children, or to somebody's children.
  • It used to belong to my father, but before he passed away he handed it down to me.
  • The songs were handed down in special hand-copied notebooks.

Synonyms

pass on, pass down;
bequeath, will, leave, leave in one's will, make over, endow, gift, transfer, give, transmit;
Law demise, devise
2Announce something, especially a judgement or sentence, formally or publicly: it was the most liberal decision ever handed down by a football authority...
  • One way round such fears is to allow the relatives to speak after the sentence has been handed down, some critics suggest.
  • Two weeks later the formal decision was handed down to close the private bank, a bitter pill that Citigroup recently disclosed cost it $244 million in the fourth quarter alone.
  • I ought formally to hand the judgment down, unless, having read it, you have noticed any errors or omissions?
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