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light-handed
the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive- New Yorker 翻訳は、…手際が良く…一般的に控えめである−ニューヨーカー |
Wiktionary英語版での「lighthanded」の意味 |
lighthanded
形容詞
lighthanded (comparative more lighthanded, superlative most lighthanded)
- Alternative form of light-handed
- benign and with minimal intervention.
- 2012, Michael A. Crew, Competition and the Regulation of Utilities, →ISBN, page 81:
- FERC then drew on a potentially significant dictum from Farmers Union II: "Moving from heavy to lighthanded regulation within the boundaries of an unchanged statute can ... be justified by a showing that under current circumstances the goal and purposes of the statute will be accomplished through substantially less regulatory oversight."
- 1997, U.S. National Conference on State Parks, Trends, page 33:
- On the other hand, lighthanded methods are believed to have more subtle effects on behaviors, often through influencing attitudes, creating knowledge, or manipulating the environment to accomplish desirable ends.
- 1979, United States Congress House Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee, Energy Conservation Within the Federal Government: The Department of Energy's Role. Hearings, page 104:
- Sparing.
- 2014, Marc Twine, Intermission: Volume 1:
- When it came to food, Melissa preferred subtle nuance and lighthanded seasoning.
- nimble and dextrous;
- 1877, Henry James, Four Meetings:
- Winterbourne constantly attended for news from the sick-room, which reached him, however, but with worrying indirectness, though he once had speech, for a moment, of the poor girl's physician and once saw Mrs Miller, who, sharply alarmed, struck him as thereby more happily inspired than he could have conceived and indeed as the most noiseless and lighthanded of nurses.
- Light-hearted.
- 2002, Stephen Windwalker, Selling Used Books Online, →ISBN, page 62:
- If you live and work in a small town atmosphere and can find acceptable ways to make yourself and your enterprise known in a lighthanded way to either or both groups in your town, you may find that some day down the road one of them will mention you to a family member who has just offhandedly mentioned the need to get rid of a collection of books.
- flippant.
- (nautical or military) Not having a full complement of workers.
- 1887, The Contributor: Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-day Saints, Volume 8, page 168:
- Thieving.
- 1922, Van Tassel Sutphen, In Jeopardy, →ISBN:
- You understand what darkies are—as curious as magpies and quite as lighthanded. If one of them had chanced to see Effingham hiding something behind the clock, he would be sure to investigate for himself at the first convenient opportunity.
- 1831, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate:
- Indeed she knew how to make young Deelbelicket, old Dougald Baresword, the Laird of Bandybrawl, and others, pay for the hospitality which she did not think proper to deny them, by rendering them useful in her negotiations with the lighthanded lads beyond the Cairn, who, finding their late object of plunder was allied to "end folks, and owned by them at kirk and market," became satisfied, on a moderate yearly composition, to desist from their depredations.
- benign and with minimal intervention.
副詞
lighthanded (comparative more lighthanded, superlative most lighthanded)
- Alternative form of light-handed
- Carrying very little.
- 1860, William Peter Strickland, Old Mackinaw, or, The fortress of the Lakes and its surroundings, page 351:
- The true state of the case is, that manufactures, as a general thing, in view of the depressed condition of the trade, have been making calculations to do a light business, and got out their logs sooner than they expected, and will on the whole do rather more than they had anticipated, having gone into the woods lighthanded.
- In a light-handed manner.
- Carrying very little.
light-handed
別の表記
語源
From Middle English lyghte handyd, from light (adjective) + honded, participle of honden (“to seize, take charge of”),[1] from the noun hond (“hand”). See more at hand.
形容詞
light-handed (comparative lighter-handed または more light-handed, superlative lightest-handed または most light-handed)
- Gentle; benign and with minimal intervention.
- 1979, United States Congress House Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee, Energy Conservation Within the Federal Government: The Department of Energy's Role. Hearings, page 104:
- 1997, U.S. National Conference on State Parks, Trends, page 33:
- On the other hand, lighthanded methods are believed to have more subtle effects on behaviors, often through influencing attitudes, creating knowledge, or manipulating the environment to accomplish desirable ends.
- 2012, Michael A. Crew, Competition and the Regulation of Utilities, →ISBN, page 81:
- FERC then drew on a potentially significant dictum from Farmers Union II: "Moving from heavy to lighthanded regulation within the boundaries of an unchanged statute can ... be justified by a showing that under current circumstances the goal and purposes of the statute will be accomplished through substantially less regulatory oversight."
- 2013, Pauline Fatien Diochon, Albert J. Mills, Emmanuel Raufflet, The Dark Side 2: Critical Cases on the Downside of Business, →ISBN:
- By maintaining a light-handed approach, regulations could be kept to a minimum, with additional measures introduced to overcome any weaknesses in the regulartory framework that arose over time.
- Sparing; applying only slight pressure or minimal amounts.
- 2014, Marc Twine, Intermission: Volume 1:
- When it came to food, Melissa preferred subtle nuance and lighthanded seasoning.
- Delicate and skilled; nimble and dextrous
- 1877, Henry James, Four Meetings:
- Winterbourne constantly attended for news from the sick-room, which reached him, however, but with worrying indirectness, though he once had speech, for a moment, of the poor girl's physician and once saw Mrs Miller, who, sharply alarmed, struck him as thereby more happily inspired than he could have conceived and indeed as the most noiseless and lighthanded of nurses.
- 2011, Achmed Abdullah, Vincent Starrett, Adventure Tales #5, →ISBN:
- He had hoped -- Fleming sighed a little and frowned a little as he though of his aspirations-- that he could have got a partner to fertilize the flowers. A light-handed partner, with the deftness for the pinch and the touch with the toothpick that was all the work demanded in the early morning hours of coolness.
- 2012, Brenda Jagger, Distant Choices, →ISBN:
- This much she knew her mother to be aiming for, motivated by a need to escape the fate and the malice of women like Maud, a need to arrange matters by her own light-handed, cool-hearted expertise so that when High Grange did become the property of Francis, or another, she would be in a position to laugh as she took her leave, driving off in her own carriage to pleasures of her own choosing, in her own home.
- Light-hearted; fun and witty or easygoing.
- 1981-1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- 2002, Stephen Windwalker, Selling Used Books Online, →ISBN, page 62:
- If you live and work in a small town atmosphere and can find acceptable ways to make yourself and your enterprise known in a lighthanded way to either or both groups in your town, you may find that some day down the road one of them will mention you to a family member who has just offhandedly mentioned the need to get rid of a collection of books.
- Flippant; lacking seriousness.
- (nautical or military) Not having a full complement of workers.
- 1887, The Contributor: Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-day Saints, Volume 8, page 168:
- Thieving, larcenous.
- 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Pirate. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 68:
- Indeed, she knew how to make young Deelbelicket, old Dougald Baresword, the Laird of Bandybrawl, and others, pay for the hospitality which she did not think proper to deny them, by rendering them useful in her negociations with the light-handed lads beyond the Cairn, who, finding their late object of plunder was allied to "kend folks, and owned by them at kirk and market," became satisfied, on a moderate yearly composition, to desist from their depredations.
- 1862, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 91, page 313:
- He has a great many amusing episodes describing the light-handed lads from the hills coming down, and in the general confusion of the times plundering Cavalier and Covenanter alike; [...]
- 1894, “Autumn Leaves: Worth a Guinea”, in Charles Dickens, Jr., editor, All the Year Round, page 26:
- 1922, Van Tassel Sutphen, In Jeopardy, →ISBN:
- You understand what darkies are—as curious as magpies and quite as lighthanded. If one of them had chanced to see Effingham hiding something behind the clock, he would be sure to investigate for himself at the first convenient opportunity.
- (food) Fresh and light-tasting, not rich, heavy, or highly seasoned.
- (obsolete) Having or requiring little strength.
- 1885, Michigan Dept. of Labor, Report, volume 2, page 268:
- ...are such as the cotton, woolen, and shoe factories, wherein the use of machinery has made mere human tenders of the operatives employed; or in such industries as the making of garments, wherein light-handed and comparatively unskilled labor, such as that of women and children, embodies the very worst features of an utterly selfish competition, and leaves the worker almost entirely at the mercy of "sweaters" and "middle-men."
副詞
light-handed (comparative more light-handed, superlative most light-handed)
- Carrying very little.
- 1860, William Peter Strickland, Old Mackinaw, or, The fortress of the Lakes and its surroundings, page 351:
- The true state of the case is, that manufactures, as a general thing, in view of the depressed condition of the trade, have been making calculations to do a light business, and got out their logs sooner than they expected, and will on the whole do rather more than they had anticipated, having gone into the woods lighthanded.
- In a light-handed manner.
- 1876, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature, Volume 17:
- At first merely fidgety, and managed with the greatest delicacy by the English postilion, then ill-tempered and capricious, swerving from side to side, necessitating in self-defence the use of the whip—“ But only gently and light-handed, ..."
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