at second hand

常见例句

Most of our knowledge is at second hand .
我们的大部分知识是间接的。
Since I got the news at second hand, I didn't take it seriously.
这个消息我是间接听来的，所以并没有太当回事。
His book about Ireland consists mostly of material taken up at second hand from other travel books.
他那本关于爱尔兰的书大部分是间接从其他游记中取材的。
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So in other words, if you live with a smoker, you really are at very high risk of demonstrating high levels of second-hand smoke exposure."
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
显然是某种启示就要来临;,显然第二次降临已很接近。
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For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Moby-Dick'
There are enough new cars (or at least second-hand ones imported from Japan) to gridlock Kingston's rush-hour traffic.
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Whereas their neighbours at nearby universities roam their sprawling campuses and prepare for high-powered careers, the Peach Garden children sit 50 to a room at rickety second-hand desks, learning how to read and counting themselves lucky to be in any sort of school at all.
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