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Describes something that isn't new — it belonged to or was used by someone else before you got it, like secondhand clothes, a secondhand car, or secondhand books. It's also used for information: "secondhand information" is something you heard from someone else, not something you saw or experienced yourself.
二手的；(消息)間接得知的
組成second (not first, coming after) + hand (here meaning "owner" — so something passes from a first hand to a second hand).
原始詞典資料7 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。
secondhandadj/ˌsɛk(ə)n(d)ˈhænd/
- 1
Not new; previously owned and used by another.
- 2
Dealing in such merchandise.
- 3
Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
- In the light of recent history it is somewhat curious that this decisive power of the professional secondhand dealers in ideas should not yet be more generally recognized.
- What's love got to do, got to do with it? / What's love but a secondhand emotion?
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Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.
- exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarette-smoking colleagues
secondhandnoun/ˌsɛk(ə)n(d)ˈhænd/
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Secondhand goods (especially clothes) collectively.
- Childrenswear is now the fastest growing sector of secondhand. […] The huge increase in the market for childrenswear shows another way in which older generations are getting into secondhand.
secondhandadv/ˌsɛk(ə)n(d)ˈhænd/
- 1
In a used or previously-owned condition.
- It was almost an article of faith with McEwen never to buy new if he could buy secondhand.
- He glanced back at the Jeep, which he'd bought secondhand a dozen years ago and now, fifteen years old, was gaining on "classic" status.
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Indirectly.
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。