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firsthand

/furst-hand/US // ˈfɜrstˈhænd //

第一手资料,亲身经历,第一手,第一手的

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the first or original source.
    • : direct from the original source: firsthand knowledge of the riot.

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Examples

  • They’re gaining a year of firsthand experience in resilience, flexibility and grit that’s rarely part of a lesson plan.

  • To forestall that particular future, the project suggests, perhaps we have to travel there ourselves, seeing it — and smelling it — firsthand.

  • The medium of late-night offers that wide reach to affirm the values of hard truths even for those who’ve experience it daily firsthand.

  • Lucy Jordan, a British writer living in Brazil with her family, experienced this firsthand.

  • I saw that firsthand, and you can see it in his coaching record.

  • Former RSD instructor Nathan Kole says he saw firsthand how this “alpha male” marketing can damage students.

  • Documents and firsthand accounts of Clausewitz at war by others are few and far between.

  • This is a critically important role, and something I've seen firsthand.

  • Korematsu knew firsthand the dangers of war-time hysteria and pleaded that we not make that mistake again.

  • I saw personally, firsthand, what drug use and drug abuse is doing to an underprivileged population.

  • The character of his comments makes it clear that he had a firsthand knowledge of the books that he cites.

  • The schools can give the students a firsthand knowledge of the various phases of library work, and this is important.

  • Of course, the value of natural objects and firsthand acquaintance was not dependent upon the truth of the theory.

  • Once in a great while historians find a firsthand account that provides striking insight into a past era.

  • Now, from her new employer, she was to learn at firsthand how people in the world of fashion comported themselves.