hand-me-down

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Younger kids know the pain of hand-me-downs , the clothes they inherit from bigger siblings.
家裡麪小一點(diǎn)的孩子都知道從哥哥姐姐那裡接衣服穿的煩惱。
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They particularly object to schools’ tendency to change uniforms on a whim, which means that costs cannot be cut by buying second-hand or dressing younger siblings in hand-me-downs.
他們尤其反對(duì)學(xué)校時(shí)不時(shí)心血來(lái)潮地?fù)Q校服，因爲(wèi)這就意味著不能給孩子買二手的校服或讓他們穿兄弟姐妹的衣服來(lái)節(jié)省開支。
It was literally a "cabinet of curios", including a Dodo, artefacts acquired from credulous Native Americans and hand-me-downs from the Tradescants.
老館是名副其實(shí)的“古玩櫃”，其中包括一個(gè)古代巨鳥，從好哄騙的美洲原住民那裡得來(lái)的手工藝品，以及屈森特家族一代一代傳下來(lái)的藏品。

The opposite will be true. I will have a lot of money to buy clothes and my sister will get hand-me-downs from me.
Hand-me-downs are great because clothes often cost too much money.
Some of the clothes I like best are hand-me-downs.

Shaking like a rag in her hand-me-downs and in the shoes that were four sizes too big!
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a piece of clothing that someone has given to a younger person because they no longer want it

Hand-me-downs are things, especially clothes, which have been used by someone else before you and which have been given to you for your use.
Hand-me-down is used to describe things, especially clothes, which have been used by someone else before you and which have been given to you for your use.