tender-handed

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Gentle; Having a light touch and compassionate actions.
    — Earlston must have remembered once dining in the Manse of Maxton at a Communion time; for, as his tender-handed wife took her place beside his chair to feed her helpless husband, he always lifted up his palsied hand and always said to himself, to her, and above all, to God, the 131st Psalm.
  2. With hands that are very sensitive and easily hurt.
    — Resinous splinters or rolled paper tapers were kept on the fireboard for candle lighters; also perhaps tongs for the tender-handed pipe lighter who could not handle a live coal in his hands.
副词 adv.
  1. Gently; With a light touch.
    — You know the old rhyme, — " ' Tender-handed touch the nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.' So, little friend, difficulties vanish before resolution and action."

词形变化

more tender-handed comparative most tender-handed superlative tenderhanded alternative more tender-handed comparative most tender-handed superlative tenderhanded alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
tender-handedly tender-handedness

词源

词源 1
From tender + handed.
词源 2
From tender + handed.
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