| 词汇 | underfoot |
| 释义 | underfoot adverb uk /ˌʌn.dəˈfʊt/ us /ˌʌn.dɚˈfʊt/ under your feet as you walk; on the ground: 在脚下；在地上 The grass was cool and pleasant underfoot.脚下的草地凉爽宜人。 Many people were trampled/crushed underfoot when the police tried to break up the demonstration.当警察试图驱散游行队伍时，许多人被踩在脚下／挤倒在地。 Under & below below beneath low lower neath nether sub subjacent ultra-low under underlying underneath underfoot | American Dictionaryunderfoot adverb[ not gradable ] us/ˌʌn·dərˈfʊt/ under your feet as you walk: The grass felt pleasant and cool underfoot. The cat keeps getting underfoot (= in the way). Examples of underfootunderfoot In military images, the ruler was usually shown alone or with a captive cowering underfoot. The underfoot conditions were a straw-bedded standing/lying area with concrete flooring providing access to the feeding barrier and trough. The ground can be felt to vibrate subtly underfoot. I can touch the rock, whether of a cave wall or of the ground underfoot, and can thereby gain a feel for what rock is like as a material. Nevertheless, we can be left with the impression that before the nineteenth century ethnic boundaries were so trampled underfoot that they were barely recognizable to the people rushing across them. Howells found the scathing reviews of surly critics to be quite as absurd and ill-motivated as "the botanist's grinding a plant underfoot because he does not find it pretty" (30). People do not spend money on luxuries to tread underfoot. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is himself engaged in destroying everything that the revolution stood for and trampling underfoot its undoubted successes. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Political and social rights are being hit and individual rights and democratic freedoms are being trampled underfoot. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English As a result, those areas that we seek to protect are in danger of being trampled underfoot by the weight of numbers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we had the right to roam anywhere we liked, she would have to deal with unevenness underfoot and brambles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our people have grit in their eyes and grit in their food; there is grit underfoot and grit in the laundry on washing day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are prepared to trample it underfoot for their own narrow party interest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the same time – and this will be my last point – national democracies will be trampled underfoot. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We know that foreign policy complications result, as international law is being trampled underfoot here in a completely grey area. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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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