| 释义 |
know-how orig. U.S.|ˈnəʊhaʊ|
[f. vbl. phr. to know how (know v. 12).]
Knowledge of how to do some particular thing; technical expertness, practical knowledge.
1838New Yorker 14 July 260/2, I promise, 1st. To do the duties of the office to the best of my know-how, and have a stouter man than myself to help me. 1857Spirit of Times 26 Dec. 270/3 ‘No, no, Massa,’ replied the gentleman from Africa, ‘charge fifty cents for killing, and fifty for the know how.’ 1899Kipling From Sea to Sea II. 95 He has the money. We have the know-how. He comes in winter to play poker... When he's lost his money we make him drunk and let him go. 1936J. Dos Passos Big Money 282 Charley Anderson, the boy with the knowhow. 1944H. A. Wallace Century of Common Man 52 We have the ‘know how’ to help many of the poverty-stricken peoples to set their feet on the path of education, manual dexterity, and economic literacy. 1946Times 10 Dec. 2/6 With regard to American investments in this country the Government welcomed such applications if they brought to this country real industrial knowledge, the ‘ know how’, which otherwise we should be without. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) i. 26 A modern product Of nerve and know-how with a new thrill. 1949Listener 15 Sept. 451/3 A manager may have knowledge of a process in his charge, but not the know-how possessed by the foreman who controls it. 1952R. M. Hare Lang. Morals x. 159 Everything that we are taught how to do must..be reducible to principles, though these may be ‘know-hows’ hard to formulate in language and more easily taught by example. 1953Encounter Oct. 68/2 There were some who were persuaded that technical knowledge—that intangible but wonderful thing called American ‘know-how’—could somehow be made a substitute for capital in the poor countries. 1967L. B. Archer in Wills & Yearsley Handbk. Managem. Technol. 129 It takes special talent and know-how on the part of a properly trained designer to create a successful house style. 1972P. M. Hubbard Whisper in Glen ix. 91 She hasn't got the mere social know-how to carry it off. |