(at) second/third/fourth hand

if you know something second, third etc hand, someone tells you about it, but you have no personal experience of it 第二/三/四手的[地]

Until now, information has been second or third hand, but this news comes from someone who was there.

此前只有间接的消息，但这一消息却来自现场人员。

Examples from the Corpus

(at) second/third/fourth hand• The leader takes a watch with a second hand, points to a player and calls out a letter of the alphabet.• A computer virus A watch with a second hand doing double time.• Other rates may apply where the development is acquired second hand, or is merely a refurbishment of an existing industrial building.• The story is now taken up at second hand.• There is even a chapter on buying second hand - which has to be a boon for other Leica devotees.• Deathtraps: Coroner's warning over second hand electrical goods.• The Fourth Hand glides to a soft landing in Wisconsin, and readers will be left smiling.• The second hand had its own dial at the bottom of the face.

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单词	(at) second/third/fourth hand
释义	(at) second/third/fourth hand (at) second/third/fourth hand if you know something second, third etc hand, someone tells you about it, but you have no personal experience of it 第二/三/四手的[地] Until now, information has been second or third hand, but this news comes from someone who was there. 此前只有间接的消息，但这一消息却来自现场人员。 Examples from the Corpus (at) second/third/fourth hand• The leader takes a watch with a second hand, points to a player and calls out a letter of the alphabet.• A computer virus A watch with a second hand doing double time.• Other rates may apply where the development is acquired second hand, or is merely a refurbishment of an existing industrial building.• The story is now taken up at second hand.• There is even a chapter on buying second hand - which has to be a boon for other Leica devotees.• Deathtraps: Coroner's warning over second hand electrical goods.• The Fourth Hand glides to a soft landing in Wisconsin, and readers will be left smiling.• The second hand had its own dial at the bottom of the face. → (at) second/third/fourth hand at hand1(13)
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