Hi, everyone. Is me again to ask another grammar related question. This time is above the usage of the phrase [hands-on]
Thumbing through a dictionary, I find that this phrase is an adjective meaning [active participation] and [particle experience]
eg: He is a hands-on manager
However, I come across a sentence that really confounds me.
[I would starve myself until I could not stand it anymore and then eat every thing I could get my hands on.]
My question is what the usage of [my hands on] in this sentence is. It seems like an adverb to add more information the sentence only. But, as I said above, [hands-on] is an adjective by definition. So...
What is the use of this confusing phrase?
Thanks
The usage of [hands-on]?
2010-05-02 7:07 am
回答 (2)
2010-05-06 10:16 am
✔ 最佳答案
你諗複雜左，把句子斬錯位。這句中的 hands on 並不是一個 phrase，而是咁岩兩字並排。I would starve myself until I could not stand it anymore and then eat everything I could get my hands on.
我地先把句斬短：
I would starve myself until I could not stand it anymore. And then I would eat everything I could get my hands on.
再短些：
I would eat everything I could get my hands on.
Get my hands on something 是一個 expression，意思是 access something。
I would eat everything I could get my hands on.
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I would eat everything I could access.
I would eat everything that I could access.
Can get my hands on X，像伸手能觸及 X，即找得到、摸得到、拿得到、買得到等等，一般是再 agressive 和再 desperate 一點的，連搶得到、偷得到、爭得到等等也包括在內。全句是：
我會餓自己，餓到頂唔順，然後找到乜就食乜。
我會餓自己，餓到頂唔順，然後唔理三七廿一見到乜就食。
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He is a hands-on manager 他是一個落手落腳、親力親為，不是得巴口，的 manager。
2010-05-02 8:25 am
rabbit_cony：Please note the following examples,
She has a necklace (of gold).-------'of gold' is an adjective phrase.
She has a necklace (which is made of gold).-------' which is made of gold 'is an adjective clause beause it has a subject( which) and a predicate(is made of gold).
Similarly in your sentence, " I would starve myself until I could not stand it anymore( or any longer )and then eat everything I could get my hands on."
everything I could get.", (which) I could get my hands on is an adjective
clause.
'everything I could get my hands on' = 'everything I could get hold of '
She has a necklace (of gold).-------'of gold' is an adjective phrase.
She has a necklace (which is made of gold).-------' which is made of gold 'is an adjective clause beause it has a subject( which) and a predicate(is made of gold).
Similarly in your sentence, " I would starve myself until I could not stand it anymore( or any longer )and then eat everything I could get my hands on."
everything I could get.", (which) I could get my hands on is an adjective
clause.
'everything I could get my hands on' = 'everything I could get hold of '
參考: my English knowledge
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