词汇 | bootlace |
释义 | bootlace noun[ C ] uk /ˈbuːt.leɪs/ us /ˈbuːt.leɪs/ a long, thin string or strip of leather used to fasten boots靴带 Peter Muller/Cultura/GettyImages Shoes ankle boot ballet flat ballet shoe Birkenstock bootie high heels high-heeled high-top hiking boot hobnail running shoe sandal shoehorn shoelace shoemaker walking boot wedge wedgie wellie wellington Everything she wore, down to her boots and even her bootlaces so neatly threaded and knotted, was mysterious and provocative. He got his bootlaces hopelessly into knots. Mr. Twist tied his bootlaces with such annoyance that he got them into knots. Note the fine details revealed, down to the metal tags of the bootlace and the nails in the heel of the boot. With the hairpin one could easily make a fair fish-hook—and with a bootlace or a good hemp cord one could make a rabbit snare. Examples of bootlacebootlace In that instance, a man stepped off a footpath into a forecourt to tie his bootlace. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall finish up as a nation selling bootlaces on the street corner if that becomes our national attitude. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His mind may be absent from his bootlaces because it is far away, seeking higher things. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have known men who could not do up their bootlaces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that we can put things right country by country, each trying to do up our own bootlaces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will be remembered that last year we removed the tax from a batch of household goods like bootlaces, toothbrushes and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We selected such things as toothbrushes, bootlaces and school satchels and exempted them from the tax entirely. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This man, who left school at the age of 14 with a very sketchy education, pulled himself up by his own bootlaces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The poor should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootlaces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That country had to pull itself up by the bootlaces and start from scratch. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is our responsibility to pull ourselves up by our own bootlaces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is like offering a man a pair of bootlaces in the winter time, with the prospect of getting a pair of boots in the spring. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One might facetiously describe bricklayers working on chimney stacks as working on their bootlaces rather than wait for a scaffolder to come along and put up the scaffolding. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we are not to be depopulated and impoverished there is only one cure for our ills; it is to pull ourselves up by our own bootlaces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some followers disagreed with entering the world of commerce but the shops were successful, selling everything from soap to suspenders, bacon to bootlaces. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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