a)if something is in hand, it is being done or dealt with 在处理中
Plans are in hand to perform ‘Oz’ next semester.
目前正在筹划下学期演出《绿野仙踪》的事。
Lisa seemed to have things in hand by the time he returned.
他回来的时候莉萨好像手头有事在忙。
job/task/matter etc in hand
Our officers have to concentrate 100 per cent on the task in hand.
我们的官员必须将全部注意力都集中在要处理的事情上。
take somebody in hand (=begin to deal with someone’s problems etc) 管起某人
b)British EnglishBrE if you work a week, a month etc in hand, you do not get paid until after you have worked two weeks, two months etc 押〔一周、一个月等的工资〕先干活〔即工作两周、两个月等后领薪〕
c)British EnglishBrE if you have time, money etc in hand, you have it available 有,在手头
I usually have a few days’ leave in hand at the end of the year.
年底的时候通常我手头会有几天假期。
d)British EnglishBrE if a team or player has a game in hand in a competition, they still have another game to play in which they could gain more points 〔球队或球员〕还有一场比赛
Examples from the Corpus
take somebody in hand• I had been so horrified by Jason Purvis' physicalcondition that, almost unwittingly, I had taken him in hand.• At last Zeus saw that he must take the matter in hand.• Oedipus took the matter in hand with energy.• Flanner, eight years older, took her in hand, guided her to theater, concerts, and exhibitions.• She took herself in hand, the essay she told herself firmly had to be shelved: one step before the other.• Matters were furthercomplicated when MI5 decided to take it in hand.• The government will have to take matters in hand.• He looked like a man who might be able to make something of himself if a good woman took him in hand.