参考词典中secondhand的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 间接获得的,古旧的,二手的,做旧货买卖的
ad. 间接地,间接听来,以旧货
参考例句
- I picked up the book in a secondhand bookstore.
我在一家旧书店里偶获此书。 - He is in the secondhand car trade.
他是从事旧汽车贸易行当的。 - He happened on the book in an secondhand bookstore.
他碰巧在一家旧书店里发现了这本书。
- I picked up the book in a secondhand bookstore.
英英解释
1个副词解释
- by indirect means
[例]- I heard about it only secondhand or thirdhand
- he prefers to buy secondhand
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- derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand
[例]- a secondhand report
- a secondhand account of a memory of something once read
- most of our knowledge is secondhand
- previously used or owned by another
[同] secondhand, used
[例]- bought a secondhand (or used) car
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