| 释义 |
hand something on1Pass something to the next person in a series or succession: he had handed on the family farm to his son...- But they remain less than owners; they are more like trustees, with an obligation to maintain the structure and hand it on to successors in good working order.
- Giuliani preached personal responsibility to the city's citizens, but he led by the example of his own willingness to take responsibility for making the city work and handing it on to his successor in markedly better shape than he found it.
- ‘They had been in my family for generations, and the idea was to hand them on to my children,’ he said.
Synonyms give, pass, hand, transfer, grant, cede, surrender, relinquish; part with, let go of; bequeath, will, leave 1.1Pass responsibility for something to someone else; delegate: for most managers there is little choice but to hand on work...- The market town's museum will be responsible for it for six weeks before handing it on.
- I will be very sad to leave them but I know I am handing them on to a well-trained young team who value the horses and the work they do.
- He talks about handing batons on, of the uselessness of the country's universities in providing its galleries with the proper staff, of the neglect of connoisseurship, of the absence of a latter - day Bernard Berenson or Kenneth Clark.
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