喜樂美語
  1. 1手持式；掌上型

    A hand-held machine is small and light enough to hold in your hand while you use it — a hand-held camera, a hand-held game, a hand-held vacuum. You will also see it written , as one word, and sometimes as a noun: “a ,” meaning the device itself. A laptop is portable, but you do not really use it while holding it in one hand, so people do not usually call a laptop hand-held. A phone, though, is a typical hand-held thing. The word is simply hand plus held, the past of hold.

    「hand-held」指一樣東西小又輕，使用時可以一手拿著，例如手持相機、掌上遊戲機、手持吸塵器。它放在名詞前面，形式是「hand-held + 名詞」，例如「a hand-held camera」（手持相機）。

    也會看到寫成一個字的「handheld」，有時當名詞用，指那個裝置本身，例如「a handheld」。筆電雖然可以帶著走，但不會一手拿著用，所以一般不叫手持裝置；手機才是典型的例子。字面上它就是「手」加上「拿著」的過去式。

From the word’s history

From hand + held.

由 hand（手）加 held（拿著）組成。

Wiktionary

組成From hand + held (the past of hold).

同家族的字

  • handthe first half: you hold the thing in your hand
  • holdheld is the past of hold

原始詞典資料4 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。

hand-heldadj/ˈhændˌhɛld/

  • 1

    Held in one or both hands.

    • He filmed the scene with a hand-held camera.
    • The hand-held game console became popular with children.
  • 2

    Small and light enough to be operated while held in one or both hands.

    • This device is small and hand-held, perfect for travel.

hand-heldnoun/ˈhændˌhɛld/

  • 1

    computingengineeringmathematicsA personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands.

    • Near-synonyms: handheld console, hand-portable
  • 2

    A snack food that is held in the hands while eating.

    • We offer sandwiches, tacos, and other hand-helds.

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。