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Firsthand describes information, knowledge, or experience that you got yourself, directly — not something someone told you about. A firsthand account of an event comes from someone who was actually there.
第一手的、親身的
組成first + hand — like information passing 'from hand to hand', firsthand means it reached you at the very first hand, straight from the source.
同家族的字
- secondhandshares the same 'hand' pattern, but means information (or goods) that passed through someone else first
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
firsthandadj/ˈfɜːstˌhænd/
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Direct, without intermediate stages.
- firsthand knowledge
- I recently received a firsthand report from an old friend — John A. Keel — who until last year was as skeptical a newshound as I have known.
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Not previously owned or used; contrasted with secondhand.
- a firsthand copy
firsthandadv/ˌfɜːstˈhænd/
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Directly or from personal experience.
- Hell and tarnations, I've known them for muddleheads and blockheads half my life, and firsthand, but I sure didn't expect them to take leave of their senses, insulting our office of President, making our Party into a white demagogue's party, slapping the Negro vote in the face.
- In the course of three intensive days in and around Guiyu's four villages, the small investigative team witnessed firsthand what passes for recycling of e-waste in Asia.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。