(noun.) adroitness in using the hands.

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• A somewhat difficult feat, achieved with great dexterity, and with a prodigious splash. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• She then took the post of toaster-general; and kneeling on the rug, fork in hand, fulfilled her office with dexterity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mr. Micawber, with a perfect miracle of dexterity or luck, caught his advancing knuckles with the ruler, and disabled his right hand. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity began squaring again. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• In his fourth combat with De Grantmesnil, the Disinherited Knight showed as much courtesy as he had hitherto evinced courage and dexterity. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• In a tribe of hunters or shepherds, a particular person makes bows and arrows, for example, with more readiness and dexterity than any other. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Where the dexterity of the lawyers, eager to discover a flaw? 查爾斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• Young John locked his door for him as they went out, slided the key into his pocket with great dexterity, and led the way to his own residence. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• He had shown little or no military ability, but considerable dexterity and administrative power. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Then he changed his tactics, and fighting warily and with extreme dexterity, he tried to do by science what he was unable to do by brute strength. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The process of bottling requires great manual dexterity. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• Friend Wamba, said he, of all those who are fools enough to serve Cedric, thou alone hast dexterity enough to make thy folly acceptable to him. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But do you not admire, I said, the coolness and dexterity of these ready ministers of political corruption? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• The King noticed this, and smiled broadly at the Englishman's want of dexterity. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• Mr. Bucket lost no time in transferring this paper, with the dexterity of a conjuror, from Mr. Smallweed to Mr. Jarndyce. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.

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