Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense toes, present participle toeing, past tense, past participle toed
1N-COUNT [usually plural]足尖;脚趾 Your toes are the five movable parts at the end of each foot. 足尖;脚趾
2N-COUNT (鞋、袜的)足尖部 The toe of a shoe or sock is the part that covers the end of your foot. (鞋、袜的)足尖部
3PHRASE 稍加尝试;谨慎尝试 If you dip your toes into something or dip your toes into the waters of something, you start doing that thing slowly and carefully, because you are not sure whether it will be successful or whether you will like it. 稍加尝试;谨慎尝试
This may encourage gold traders to dip their toes back into the markets.
这可能会促使黄金交易商谨慎地尝试重返市场。
Universities are dipping their toes in the waters of management education.
各大学正开始尝试进入管理教育领域。
4PHRASE 使保持警觉 If you say that someone or something keeps you on your toes, you mean that they cause you to remain alert and ready for anything that might happen. 使保持警觉
His fiery campaign rhetoric has kept opposition parties on their toes for months.
他激烈的竞选言辞使反对党派一连几个月都保持警觉。
5PHRASE 听从;服从 If you toe the line, you behave in the way that people in authority expect you to. 听从;服从
...attempts to persuade the rebel members to toe the line.
说服叛乱分子顺从政府的努力
He's one of the politicians that wouldn't toe the party line.
6PHRASE 触犯;得罪 If you tread on someone's toes, you offend them by criticizing the way that they do something or by interfering in their affairs. 触犯;得罪 [informal]
I must be careful not to tread on their toes. My job is to challenge, but not threaten them.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + TOE | TOE + VERB | TOE + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤big大腳趾◇The shoe pressed painfully against her big toe.鞋子把她的大腳趾擠得很痛。➤little, pinky (NAmE) 小腳趾▸➤bare光着腳趾◇Under his bare toes the floor felt gritty.他光着腳,覺得地板上有沙礫。➤broken, stubbed骨折的腳趾◇the pain of a stubbed toe腳趾骨折疼痛VERB + TOE➤stand on, step on, tread on (especially BrE) 踮腳;踩到腳趾;得罪◇She stood on her toes to kiss him.她踮起腳親他。◇Ouch! That was my toe you just trod on.哎喲!你剛才踩的是我的腳。◇She trod on a lot of toes when she joined the company. (figurative) 她進公司時得罪了很多人。➤stub腳趾不小心踢到▸➤break弄斷腳趾▸➤dip浸腳趾;涉足◇I dipped my toe in the river to test the temperature.我把腳趾伸進河裏試試水溫。◇So far they have only dipped their toe in the potentially vast computer market. (figurative) 迄今為止他們剛剛涉足電腦這個潛在的巨大市場。➤point用腳趾指▸➤curl捲曲腳趾▸➤wiggle扭動腳趾▸➤tap輕點腳趾◇She tapped her toes to the music.她隨着音樂輕點腳趾打着節拍。➤touch觸到腳趾◇Can you touch your toes (= while keeping your legs straight)?你的手能摸到腳趾嗎?TOE + VERB➤curl (oftenfigurative) 腳趾捲曲;使厭惡◇The man's broad smile made her toes curl (= made her feel uncomfortable).那個男人咧大嘴笑讓她感到不自在。TOE + NOUN➤injury腳趾受傷PREPOSITION➤between the/your toes腳趾間◇He had some kind of fungus between his toes.他有腳癬。➤on your toes踮着腳◇He moved lightly on his toes like a boxer.他像拳擊手一樣踮着腳輕盈移動。◇The threat of inspections kept us all on our toes (= made sure we kept everything up to standard and were ready). (figurative) 可能要來人視察,這讓我們保持着警覺。PHRASES➤from head to toe, from top to toe從頭到腳◇He gave himself a good scrub from head to toe.他把自己從頭到腳擦洗了個乾淨。➤the tips of your toes腳尖◇I stood on the tips of my toes to look through the window.我踮起雙腳朝窗外看。➤the toe of your boot, the toe of your shoe靴尖;鞋尖