swift-handed

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Characterized by quick, skillful movements of the hands.
    — Then as they fought on foot, fast and fiercely with their swords, Tristrem, being sorely wounded in the thigh, grew well-nigh mad with pain, and with one swift-handed heavy stroke cleft Moraunt's helmet to his skull, breaking the sword-point in his brain.
  2. Quick to respond or react.
    — But, in the simple questions submitted to the Peruvian judge, delay would have been useless; and the Spaniards, familiar with the evils growing out of long-protracted suits, where the successful litigant is too often a ruined man, are loud in their encomiums of this swift-handed and economical justice.

词形变化

more swift-handed comparative most swift-handed superlative swifthanded alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
swift-handedness

词源

From swift + handed.
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