Most of them, after all, had not been at the battle and had only heard of the massacre at second hand.
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.在宗教和*裏,人們的信念和信仰幾乎在所有場合裏都是二手貨,而且從來沒驗過貨!
I have heard a lot about the war at second hand from my father.
at second hand; indirectly