- 1假熱情地握手寒暄
To glad-hand is to greet people in a big, warm, “so glad to see you” way — a smile, a handshake, a few friendly words — especially when the warmth is put on for show. Politicians, salespeople, and hosts at big events are the ones who get accused of it. It is not a kind word. If you only say someone shook hands and said hello, that is fine; glad-hand says the friendliness feels cheap or . You will meet it more in American news and talk about public life than in a Taiwan classroom. The usual use is as a verb: you glad-hand the crowd.
glad-hand 指用很熱情、很誇張的方式跟人打招呼，有笑容、握手和幾句親切的話，尤其是那份熱情是做給人看的。被說這樣的，常是政客、業務和大型活動的主持人。這個字帶點批評：如果只是握手問好，那很正常；glad-hand 說的是那份熱情聽起來是假的、刻意練過的。
這個字在美式新聞和公共生活的談論裡比較常見，在台灣課堂上比較少聽到。它通常當動詞用，後面接人或人群，例句「you glad-hand the crowd」，意思是你對著人群假熱情地寒暄。
組成glad (“happy”) + hand (the hand you shake).
同家族的字
- gladthe happy feeling the greeting pretends to show
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
glad-handverb
- 1
To be overly friendly with (a stranger) in order to gain an advantage.
- Not in many a moon had he glad-handed so many people. […] The President, in fact, behaved noticeably like a candidate for reelection.
- Whenever I wasn’t glad-handing NTOC [National Threat Operations Center] leadership at headquarters, I spent my time learning everything I could—“hot-desking” with analysts who worked different programs and different types of targets, so as to be able to teach my fellow team members back in Hawaii the newest ways the agency’s tools might be used.
- 2
To extend a glad hand (to someone); to welcome warmly.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。