| 单词 | in the hands of | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (also into, to, etc.) the hands of  2.  Chiefly in plural, in constructions with a preposition: possession, custody, charge, authority, power, disposal, etc. Esp. in expressions such as  in (also into, to, etc.) the hands of,  in a person's hands,  to come into (also to) a person's hands, etc.at hand, on hand, under hand, etc.: see Phrases. ΚΠ eOE (Mercian)    Vespasian Psalter 		(1965)	 xxx. 18  				Eripe me de manibus inimicorum meorum : genere me of hondum feonda minra. OE    Ælfric Lives of Saints 		(Julius)	 		(1900)	 II. 378  				Crisantus þa leornode..grammatican cræft and þa hæðenan bec, oþþæt þa halgan godspel him becomon to hande. OE    Paris Psalter 		(1932)	 cxviii. 109  				Is sawl min symble on ðinum holdum handum. c1175    Ormulum 		(Burchfield transcript)	 l. 3014  				He wollde uss lesenn. Vt off þe laþe gastess hannd & brinngenn uss till heoffne. c1225						 (?OE)						    Soul's Addr. to Body 		(Worcester)	 (Fragm. B) l. 7  				Hwar beoþ [nu] þeo goldfæten, þeo þe guldene comen to þine honden? c1300    St. Thomas Becket 		(Laud)	 357 in  C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary 		(1887)	 116  				Þe bischopriches fullen boþe In-to þe kingus hond. a1400    tr.  Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie 		(Ashm.)	 		(1894)	 140 (MED)  				Manye men dieden in hise handis bi þis wey. 1410    in  C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis 		(1856)	 I. 30  				[He] fand ane borch in our hand as schref. ?a1425    Mandeville's Trav. 		(Egerton)	 		(1889)	 18  				Many oþer landes he haldes in his hand. 1511    in  M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum 		(1908)	 I. 337/2  				Als lang as he haldis the comptrollary in his hand. a1530    R. Pace Let. in  H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. 		(1846)	 3rd Ser. I. lxxxi. 199  				In a Pacquett off Lettres..comyn to my handis thys mornynge. 1548    Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cvj  				The Frenchemen..thinkyng the victory to be in their handes. 1611    Bible 		(King James)	 Gen. xvi. 6  				Behold, thy maid is in thy hand .       View more context for this quotation 1648    C. Walker Relations & Observ.  i. 11  				It was worth observing to see how officiously some of the old Stagers took leave of the publick Purse, before it came into Hucksters hands. 1709    R. Steele Tatler No. 53. ⁋11  				The Citadel will be in the Hands of the Allies before the last Day of this Month. 1759    J. Wesley Let. 17 Nov. 		(1931)	 IV. 336  				The weekly contributions of our community..never come into my hands. 1766    W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxxii. 511  				The executor..is allowed to pay himself first; by retaining in his hands so much as his debt amounts to. 1815    Times 31 Oct. 3/4  				The letter came into the hands of the prisoner at the bar, who made an indorsement upon it, ‘George Maddocks, per procuration of Robert Falcon’. 1887    Daily News 16 Mar. 2/5  				It is generally within the last ten years of a building lease that houses in London come into the hands of the house farmer. 1889    A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke iii. 25  				Not once in a month did a common newsletter fall into our hands. 1926    Amer. Mercury Mar. 368/1  				There recently came into my hands a pamphlet, peddled by bookleggers, entitled ‘Suppressed Poems by James Whitcomb Riley and Eugene Field.’ 1934    P. G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves i. 15  				Mr. Sipperly..recommended him to place his affairs in my hands. 2006    Sunday Herald 		(Glasgow)	 2 July 31/4  				Depleted uranium is only a weapon in the hands of beardy men. < as lemmas  | 
	
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