one-handedness
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The quality of having a dominant hand; left-handedness or right-handedness.
— Again some persons are too right-handed (I question, indeed, whether one-handedness, whether right or left be chiefly employed, does not in all cases involve a loss of power).
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Chirality
— It must be noted that the stimulating hypotheses of Cairns-Smith (1982) emphasizing the role of clays in the origin of life do not account for the crucial one-handedness of biopolymers required to ensure the survival of self-replicating organic systems.
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The possession of only one hand or the ability to use only one hand; the loss of the use of one hand.
— The young man had married a woman who had only one hand, and it was on the fact of her one-handedness that my thought was focused.
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The state of choosing to use only one hand.
— A later generation of bebop pianists would often be accused of one-handedness; their right hands flew along with melodies and improvisations, while their "weak" left hands just plonked chords.
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The quality of being designed for only one hand.
— As can be witnessed in a performance of that work by Fleisher, it is indeed a dazzling display piece in which, if it is only heard and not seen, its one-handedness might evade listeners' notice.
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A state in which only one person is active
— Holding intercourse with Sir William at this date partook a good deal of the nature of a one-handed conversation, and the one-handedness seemed to increase when the only share of the host, in the post-prandial conviviality, consisted in passing the decanters, which Sir William was scrupulous to do.
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Weakness, limitation
— Mr. Herbert makes his moan over the awful one-handedness and one-leggedness of our rich classes, who are smitten with the universal incapacity to help theniselves.
词形变化
词源
From one-handed + -ness.
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