| 释义 |
Idiom first hand if you experience something first hand, you experience it yourself.Many reporters based in the capital are experiencing the war first hand.It is difficult to appreciate the scale of the problem without seeing the effects of the famine at first hand.
first handDirect(ly) (as opposed to second hand, or from a source other than oneself). Often hyphenated if used as a modifier before a noun. As a teacher, I've seen first hand how reading can change children's lives. We were finally about to hear some first-hand accounts of what happened. (at) first ˈhand from your own experience or knowledge, rather than from somebody else; directly: I know at first hand what it is like to be poor; we always had very little money at home.We have a first-hand account of the raid from a witness. |