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show of hands

举手,举手表决,举手示意,举手发言

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an indication of approval, disapproval, volunteering, etc., on the part of a group of persons, usually made by each assenting person raising his or her hand.

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Examples

  • Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.

  • “We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.

  • As soon as this attack [happened], Paris citizens came together to show were are not afraid, we are Charlie Hebdo.

  • And they might not have to wait that long to show their political heft.

  • Not actual CIA agents, but U.S. government personnel who have worked very closely with the CIA, and who are fans of the show.

  • With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.

  • She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.

  • He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.

  • He burst into a loud laugh, clapped his hands, and danced before the delighted babe.

  • None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.