hand-me-down

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈhænd.mɪˌdaʊn]
• 美式音标 [ˈhænd.mɪˌdaʊn]
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基本解释

• adj. 传下来的；现成而价廉质次的
• n. 传下来的东西；现成的廉价衣服

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英汉例句

双语例句

• Younger kids know the pain of hand-me-downs , the clothes they inherit from bigger siblings.
  家里面小一点的孩子都知道从哥哥姐姐那里接衣服穿的烦恼。
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• They particularly object to schools’ tendency to change uniforms on a whim, which means that costs cannot be cut by buying second-hand or dressing younger siblings in hand-me-downs.
  他们尤其反对学校时不时心血来潮地换校服，因为这就意味着不能给孩子买二手的校服或让他们穿兄弟姐妹的衣服来节省开支。
• It was literally a "cabinet of curios", including a Dodo, artefacts acquired from credulous Native Americans and hand-me-downs from the Tradescants.
  老馆是名副其实的“古玩柜”，其中包括一个古代巨鸟，从好哄骗的美洲原住民那里得来的手工艺品，以及屈森特家族一代一代传下来的藏品。

原声例句

• The opposite will be true. I will have a lot of money to buy clothes and my sister will get hand-me-downs from me.
• Hand-me-downs are great because clothes often cost too much money.
• Some of the clothes I like best are hand-me-downs.

权威例句

• Shaking like a rag in her hand-me-downs and in the shoes that were four sizes too big!
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词组短语

短语

• hand -me-down -me-downs 旧衣

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a piece of clothing that someone has given to a younger person because they no longer want it

柯林斯英英字典

• Hand-me-downs are things, especially clothes, which have been used by someone else before you and which have been given to you for your use.
• Hand-me-down is used to describe things, especially clothes, which have been used by someone else before you and which have been given to you for your use.

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