单词 | handed-down |
释义 | handed-down (once / 695254 pages) adj WORD FAMILY handed-down USAGE EXAMPLES“It definitely looked like a grandmother’s or a handed-down recipe, because there were hardly any directions,” said Ragone. Washington Post(Aug 17, 2016) Later, an interrogated village boy spins his trust in Allah into an explanation for the disappearances that quietly unnerves with the force of handed-down lore. Los Angeles Times(Aug 10, 2016) Or is it a restless response, as in our politics, to a handed-down status quo? Los Angeles Times(Feb 08, 2016) adj having been passed along from generation to generation Syn tralatitious traditional consisting of or derived from tradition |
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