2011年10月11日 · Hi, I'd like to know about the expression "do you need a hand" and I think it could be used in the situation when I want to offer help to someone. Last night, I saw a foreigner carrying many bags and I asked "Do you need a hand"? He said "thanks". I guess the meaning of my expression is...

2022年12月10日 · The idioms are 'need a hand' and 'give someone a hand.' The only way asking 'Do you need my hand' would make sense to me is if someone specifically needed my actual hand in order to do something. lingobingo

2016年6月2日 · Come with me my friend / Come on now and take my hand / You can be my friend / Soon be in another country - "In Time", Jefferson Airplane Yeah, you've got that something / I think you'll understand / When I'll feel that something / I wanna hold your hand - "I Want to Hold Your Hand", The Beatles

2006年10月20日 · Place the upright one under the flat one (I put it where the knuckles nearest the palm are) and the only finger which will touch the flat hand is the middle one - the others are too short alongside it. To make them touch the flat hand means bending the middle finger, and the others need to bend too if the little finger is to touch the flat hand.

2005年1月18日 · No utilizen "esterilizador" o "gel para esterilizar", o algo que comprenda el término estéril para traducir "hand sanitizer". Es totalmente INCORRECTO. Esterilizar implica el interrumpir cualquier posibilidad de que los gérmenes patógenos se reproduzcan.

2011年2月22日 · There are no rules for hyphenation, just lots of preferences and analogies. Adjective + Noun adjectival compounds tend to be hyphenated: first-rate, low-cost, high-maintenance, so right-hand. This analogy doesn't apply to top(-)right.

2016年6月15日 · I agree that need is more likely than is needing. The infinitive can sound slightly more formal than the ing-form. I shan't be needing that sounds a bit more colloquial than I shan't need that. I'd say be needing tends to refer to the present and need tends to refer to the future, at least with might. That's what seems to be happening in the OP ...

2009年5月23日 · You may well want to use paint by hand. T. Timlo Senior Member. Chinese May 23, 2009 #3 The sentence is "I ...

2019年3月13日 · 'give a hand' - I usually come across this expression when physical help is to be involved. Can I use it in a non-physical context? E.g, A: I can't do the Maths homework. B: Relax, I'll give you a hand.

2007年3月23日 · The usual phrase is the right-hand man - meaning the person who is the closest henchman to a leader, or assistant to a boss. This is all to do with the fact that most people are right-handed - maybe this meant they held their sword in their right hand and needed protection there: they'd be vulnerable when they lifted their sword to strike.