- 1右撇子；慣用右手的
A right-handed person uses the right hand for skilled work: writing, throwing, cutting, brushing teeth. Most people are right-handed, so many tools — scissors, computer mice, school desks — were long made with them in mind, though actually that is less automatic than it used to be. You can say a right-handed pitcher in sport, or simply She is right-handed. It is a calm, factual word. It does not praise the person as correct; it only names the hand they trust.
這個字指慣用右手的人，也就是右撇子。這種人習慣用右手做精細的工作，例如寫字、丟東西、剪東西和刷牙。大多數人是右撇子，所以很多工具，像剪刀、電腦滑鼠和學校的桌椅，都是以他們為考量來設計的，不過現在比以前較不理所當然。
運動中常用「a right-handed ＿＿」，例如「a right-handed pitcher」，指右手投球的投手；也可以直接說「She is right-handed」，指她是右撇子。這是平實、客觀的字，只是說出一個人慣用哪隻手，不是說他比較正確。
From the word’s history
From Middle English riȝt honded; right + handed.
源自中古英文 riȝt honded，就是 right 加上 handed。
組成From Middle English riȝt honded, equivalent to right + handed (using that hand).
同家族的字
- left-handedthe pair: using the left hand instead
- handthe body part named in handed
原始詞典資料6 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。
right-handedadj/ɹaɪtˈhændɪd/
- 1
Using one's right hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's left.
- 2
Intended to be worn on, or used by, the right hand.
- 3
Turning or spiralling from left to right; clockwise.
- 4
natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsOf a particle for which the direction of its spin is the same as the direction of its motion.
- 5
Of a coordinate system: following the right-hand rule.
right-handednoun/ɹaɪtˈhændɪd/
- 1
Right-handed people, taken as a whole.
- Evidence contradicting this principle came from a study of epileptic patients by Penfield and Roberts (1959) who found that dysphasia following surgery on the right hemisphere was not significantly more frequent in the left-handed than in the right-handed.
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