Handle

(noun.) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; 'he grabbed the hammer by the handle'; 'it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip'.

(verb.) touch, lift, or hold with the hands; 'Don't handle the merchandise'.

(verb.) show and train; 'The prize-winning poodle was handled by Mrs. Priscilla Prescott'.

校对:马里恩

• Or I could turn you a rare handle for that crutch-stick, if it belongs to him you call your father. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• During the Tudor and Stuart reigns a fashionable gift at christenings was the apostle, so called because at the end of the handle was the figure of an apostle. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• And they alone of all the citizens may not touch or handle silver or gold, or be under the same roof with them, or wear them, or drink from them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Then the bowl became ovoid, or egg-shaped, and the end of the handle was rounded, without the notch. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He had checked off each bridge in its turn, with the handle of his safe-key on the palm of his hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• In the interests of renown the forwardness should lie chiefly in the capacity to handle things. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Later, the bowl became more pointed, the drop was replaced by a tongue, and the handle, after 1760, instead of slightly curving to the front at the end, reversed the position. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A horn-handled clasp knife was lying in a pool of blood beside him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The operator had worked so mechanically that he had handled the news without the slightest knowledge of its significance. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mr. Helstone pushed up his spectacles from his nose to his forehead, handled his snuff-box, and administered to himself a portion of the contents. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We could thus take care of a snow-storm by diminishing the bulk of material to be handled. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• On the ledge at the side, were an empty laudanum-bottle and a tortoise-shell handled penknife--soiled, but not with ink. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• At the end of this line it is shaken out over a grating, and the sand handled in the same manner as on the smaller conveyors. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He was small, gray-faced and no one handled a cape better. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A recent improvement in the handling of iron from the blast furnace is shown in Fig. 255. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He understood the various processes of handling wool and cotton, although his own work lay outside them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• About 1900, longer films came into use, which necessitated a change in handling. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• For years I have been aware of its existence though I have never before had the opportunity of handling it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Being in a narrow street and a congested district, the plant needed special facilities for the handling of coal and ashes, as well as for ventilation and forced draught. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Anselmo came out of the mouth of the cave with a deep stone basin full of red wine and with his fingers through the handles of three cups. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Well-seasoned timber is an expensive article, sir; and all the iron handles come, by canal, from Birmingham. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Charles Newbold in 1797 took out the first patent in the United States for a plough--all parts cast in one piece of solid iron except the beam and handles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The handles were made from crooked branches of trees. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The fulcrum is at the wheel, the force is at the handles, the weight is on the wheelbarrow. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There are sixteen starving babies from one to six years old in the party, and their legs are no larger than broom handles. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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