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light-handed

/lahyt-han-did/US // ˈlaɪtˈhæn dɪd //

轻手轻脚,轻手,轻手轻脚的,轻手重脚

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : short-handed.
    • : having the hands lightly or only slightly encumbered, as with parcels or bundles.
    • : having a light touch; handling things delicately and deftly.

Examples

  • You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.

  • The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.

  • Some “hanging judges” have handed down hundreds of death sentences at a time.

  • And how we want to live our lives in light of those differences.

  • Gillingham tells Mary that he wants to make their lives simpler, but it sounds a little like the dying of the light.

  • Behold a dumpy, comfortable British paterfamilias in a light flannel suit and a faded sun hat.

  • She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

  • Mr. Jones swung round a large iron key he held in his hand, and light dawned upon him.

  • Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.

  • The faint candle-light glimmered on a ponderous gilded cornice, which had also sustained violence.