单词 | handle |
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音标 | ['hændl] |
解释 | n.柄,把手;v.处理 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n. 柄,把手;v. 处理(manipulate; wield) 【考】 反义词:cumbersome( 麻烦)-easy to handle(容易处理) 【记】 hand(手)+le→把手 |
字源 | handle (n.) Old English handle, formed from hand (n.) with instrumental suffix -le indicating a tool in the way thimble was formed from thumb, spindle from spin, treadle from tread, etc. The slang sense of "nickname" is first recorded 1870, originally U.S., from earlier expressions about adding a handle to (one's) name, i.e. a title such as Mister or Sir, attested from 1833. To fly off the handle (1833) is a figurative reference to an ax head (to be off the handle "be excited" is recorded from 1825, American English). To get a handle on "get control of" is recorded by 1919. handle (v.) Old English handlian "to touch or move with the hands," also "deal with, discuss;" see handle (n.). Akin to Old Norse höndla "to seize, capture," Danish handle "to trade, deal," German handeln "to bargain, trade." Related: Handled; handling. Meaning "to act towards (someone) in a certain manner" (usually with hostility or roughness) is from c.1200. The commercial sense was weaker in English than in some other Germanic languages, but it emerged in American English (1888) from the notion of something passing through one's hands, and see handler. |
不择手段背单词 | n. 把手; v 处理 = manipulate 【记】hand(手), le一把手 【反】cumbersome(adj 讨厌的; 麻烦的; 笨重的)-easy to handle(容易处理的) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】hand + 音:兜,用手兜着的把手 |
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