dextrous: [17] Just as the left hand has always been associated with awkwardness or maladroitness (cack-handed), so the right hand has traditionally been credited with skill: hence dextrous, a derivative of Latin dexter, which meant ‘on the right side’ and thus by extension ‘skilful’. This came ultimately, like Greek dexiós, Gothic taihswa, Breton dehou, Russian desnoj, and many other related forms in the general semantic area ‘right-hand side’, from an Indo-European base *dek-. English acquired the Latin adjective itself as a heraldic term in the 16th century.
dextrous (adj.)
1620s, alternative spelling of dexterous; this version is more conformable to Latin but less common in English.
实用例句
1. Furthermore, Mr Obama's dextrous attempts to avoid provoking the Chinese were heavily censored.
这还不算, 奥巴马试图避免激怒中方的机敏措辞也受到了严格审查.
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2. This paper deals with thecalculation problem of the boundary of manipulator dextrous workspace.
