| 词组 | hands-on |
| 释义 | hands-on This now-common adjective is a recent coinage. Our earliest evidence of its use is from 1969: • The high point of the classes is the great amount of hands-on time available to the students —Philip H. Braverman, Datamation, November 1969 It first became widespread in the phrase hands-on experience, denoting practical experience in the actual operation of something, such as a computer, or in the performance of a job. Much of our early evidence for it relates to education. • ... unusual teaching methods that emphasize active, hands-on experience —Larry A. Van Dyne, Change, February 1973 But by the early 1980s, hands-on was being more widely applied, describing everything from a museum featuring articles meant to be touched to a corporate executive taking an active role in running a business: • "... didn't think Valente was hands-on enough." Mr. Valente, he [unidentified speaker] said, "didn't dig into the business enough...." —Jeffrey A. Tannenbaum, Wall Street Jour., 19 June 1980 Its adoption in the world of business has given hands-on a measure of notoriety that it never had in the world of education, and such commentators as Safire 1986 and the usage panel of Harper 1985 have in recent years considered it jargon. Whatever validity that description has (and it does have some, certainly), the use of hands-on in the business world is established, and it will probably gain in respectability in the non-business world as its occurrence becomes less of a novelty. Our only recommendation is that you avoid it in contexts where it may be more suggestive of physical groping than of practical involvement: • "... we're all looking for ways to get a hands-on feel for the consumer" —Alexander MacGregor, quoted in N. Y. Times Book Rev., 3 Apr. 1983 |
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