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single-handed

/sing-guhl-han-did/US // ˈsɪŋ gəlˈhæn dɪd //

单手,单手操作,单手的,单枪匹马

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : accomplished or done by one person alone: a single-handed victory; single-handed sailing.
    • : by one's own effort; unaided.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : by oneself; alone; without aid: He built the garage single-handed.

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Examples

  • Despite the strong language, however, the neither the JPO nor Lockheed could dispute a single fact in either Daily Beast report.

  • It is not a decisive war, with a single, signature victory, but a war of attrition.

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

  • A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

  • They stood in a single row, united by solemn respect as the Liu family remained inside.

  • When the whole hunt is hunting up, each single change is made between the whole hunt, and the next bell above it.

  • "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

  • She apparently prefers to paint single figures of women and young girls, but her works include a variety of subjects.

  • Beginning with single twigs and working over them patiently she at length painted whole trees, and later animals.

  • Liking for a single colour is a considerably smaller display of mind than an appreciation of the relation of two colours.