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Related topics: Measurement

foot1 /fʊt/ S1 W1 noun (plural feet /fiːt/) [countableC]

1 body part 身體部位HBA the part of your body that you stand on and walk on 腳，足

My foot hurts.

我腳痛。

I had blisters on the soles of my feet.

我的腳底起泡了。

I dropped a glass earlier, so don’t walk around in bare feet.

我剛才打破了一個玻璃杯，所以不要光着腳到處走。

The vet examined the horse’s hind feet.

獸醫檢查了馬的後蹄。

Don’t wipe your feet on the carpet!

别在地毯上蹭腳！

She stood on the platform, her suitcase at her feet.

她站在月台上，手提箱放在腳邊。

2 measurement 尺寸 (plural feet or foot) (written abbreviation ft)TM a unit for measuring length, equal to 12 inches or about 30 centimetres 英尺

He’s six feet tall, with blonde hair.

他身高六英尺，一頭金發。

Mark was standing just a few feet away from me.

馬克就站在離我幾英尺遠的地方。

I’d say she’s about five foot three (=five feet and three inches).

我猜她大約五英尺三英寸高。

a one-/two-/three- etc foot something

a four-foot wall

一堵四英尺高的牆

square feet/cubic feet

15,000 square feet of office space

15,000平方英尺的辦公空間

3 BOTTOM PART 底部the foot of something BOTTOMthe lowest or bottom part of something 某物的底部，某物的下端

the foot of the stairs/ladder etc

He walked to the foot of the stairs.

他走到樓梯下面。

the foot of a mountain/cliff etc

a small cottage at the foot of the hill

山腳下的一間小村舍

at the foot of something

a large wooden trunk at the foot of his bed

他床腳的一個大木箱

The date is shown at the foot of the page.

日期顯示在頁末。

Examples from the Corpus

at the foot of something• She put her socks and shoes at attention at the foot of the chair.• Claire ranges back and forth at the foot of the bed, throwing her arms around for emphasis.• My first thought was that this was Dad lying at the foot of the stairs having killed himself.• They can be used in front of a sofa or at the foot of the bed.• They stood beside a small, gurgling pool at the foot of the altar and professed their faith.• But Jim Magilton's penalty was brilliantly saved by Martin Taylor at the foot of the post.• The big lake yonder at the foot of the rounded mountains is Webb Lake.

4 on foot WALKif you go somewhere on foot, you walk there 步行

It takes about 30 minutes on foot, or 10 minutes by car.

步行去大約需要30分鐘，如果坐車去，則需要10分鐘。

n Grammar

✗ Don’t say: by foot

Examples from the Corpus

on foot• The best way to see Yosemite is on foot.• It's not far. It'll take you about ten minutes on foot.• The two men had attempted to cross the mountains on foot.• The bus left us at the bottom of the hill, and we went the rest of the way on foot

5 get/jump/rise etc to your feet STANDto stand up after you have been sitting 直起身來/跳起來/站起身來等

He leapt to his feet and ran outside.

他跳起來，跑了出去。

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get/jump/rise etc to your feet• Antony rose to his feet and stood gazing intensely at her.• The three men turned, facing it, Kao Chen getting to his feet.• He got to his feet, did a 365-degree scan, and moved on.• Kay McGovern rose to his feet, cheering appreciatively when the performance ended.• They got to their feet and consulted; then they disappeared.• Zeinab rose to her feet and swept out of the box.

6 on your feet

a) STANDto be standing for a long time without having time to sit down 〔長時間〕站立着

The worst thing about working in the shop is that you’re on your feet all day.

在商店裏工作最不好的就是要整天站着。

→ dead on your feet at dead1(8)

b) STANDto be standing up 站起來

As soon as the bell rang the class were on their feet and out of the door.

鈴聲一響，全班學生就立即起身跑到門外去了。

c) to feel better again after being ill and in bed 〔生病卧床後〕恢複健康

We’ll soon have you on your feet again.

我們很快就會讓你恢複健康。

Examples from the Corpus

on your feet• She'd been on her feet all morning without once sitting down.• You go. I've been on my feet all day, and I need a rest.• The crowd was on its feet.• Daley was on his feet, his arms waving, his mouth working.• He was on his feet, gathering up books from his desk.• He was on his feet, holding out his hand to Nick who went to him and took it trustingly.• I was on my feet in the darkness, dressing quietly.• A correspondent from the New York Times was on his feet.• A socialist youth was on his feet, roaring with all the force and outrage of his years.• The ones she had just knocked down were on their feet again, hopping on the steps around her.

7 be/get back on your feet to have enough money again, or to be successful again after having problems 重新富有；東山再起

I need to get back on my feet again and forget all this.

我得重新振作起來，忘掉這一切。

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be/get back on your feet• But we are reliably informed that Angus will be back on his feet and more importantly that seat tomorrow.• He got back on his feet, and they all made another parade around the stage.• In those early years, Macey helped Dole literally get back on his feet.• We can get back on our feet.• Never got back on her feet again, really.• The Mirror Group would soon be back on its feet.• It was an inexpensive, safe, stable environment for families while they got back on their feet.

8 off your feet sitting or lying down, rather than standing or walking 坐着；躺着

The doctor told me to stay off my feet for a few days.

醫生囑咐我躺幾天。

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off your feet• It was a relief to get off my feet for a while.• They placed a lavatory chain around his neck and hoisted him off his feet.• He kind of swept me off my feet.• But the stories never swept the reading public off its feet the way the Sherlock Holmes tales did.• He was in livery, and told me he was rushed off his feet.• We were rushed off our feet yesterday.• The doctor told me to stay off my feet for a few days.• They have not, therefore, been swept off their feet.• The boys aim only to get one over on the girls while the girls dream of being romantically swept off their feet.

9 knock/lift etc somebody off their feet to make someone fall over 撞倒某人/使某人雙腳離地

They were blown off their feet by the force of the explosion.

他們被爆炸的沖力掀倒在地。

10 be rushed/run off your feet BUSY/HAVE A LOT TO DOto be very busy 非常忙碌，忙得腳不沾地

Before Christmas, most salespeople are rushed off their feet.

聖誕節前，大多數銷售人員忙得腳不沾地。

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be rushed/run off your feet• He was in livery, and told me he was rushed off his feet.• All the sales assistants are run off their feet. The shop ought to take on more staff.• Obviously, the emergency services are run off their feet.• There had been lots of problems, and they were rushed off their feet.• Bus managers were expecting to be rushed off their feet.• It's my son's birthday party tomorrow. I've been absolutely rushed off my feet getting ready for it.• We were rushed off our feet yesterday.

11 set foot in something ENTERto go to or enter a place 進入某處，踏進某處

She swore she would never set foot in his house again.

她發誓再也不會踏進他的住處一步。

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set foot in something• She had set foot in Skipton and passed through Keighley, but these were small country towns.• As soon as I set foot in there, I knew that I had to be involved somehow.• The moment I set foot in this house, my world turned upside down.• The last time Molly set foot in that house was 26 years ago.• However, he had never set foot in the village again.• Streetsmart in Jersey City, many have never set foot in the big town across the Hudson.• August paid off the bank, then never set foot in New Albion or Lake Wobegon again.• After she sued, Harvard said it would file criminal trespass charges against Garzilli if she sets foot in the department.• Louis Johnson came to despise the Alsops and ordered Pentagon reception desks to inform him whenever they set foot in the building.

12 be/get under your feet ANNOYto annoy you by always being in the same place as you and preventing you from doing what you want 在身邊糾纏，妨礙

I hate summer vacation. The kids are under my feet all day long.

我不喜歡暑假，孩子們整天纏着我。

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be/get under your feet• The kids have been under my feet all day long.• That way you will not be under her feet.

13 put your foot down

a) INSISTto say very firmly that someone must do something or must stop doing something 果斷行事，堅持立場；堅決阻止

You’ll just have to put your foot down and tell him he can’t stay out on school nights.

你一定要態度堅決，告訴他如果第二天要上學，晚上就不能在外面逗留。

b) informalTTC to make a car go faster 踩下油門，加快車速

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put your foot down• We were nearing the camp, so I aimed for the ruts in the track and put my foot down.• You'd better put your foot down before those kids get completely out of control.• Ed was talking about dropping out of school, but Mom and Dad put their foot down.• Later still My silly wee sister has put her feet down and refuses to let me near her Power Pack.• They could have put their foot down and dragged us into court.• Rice, however, put his foot down and made what he called his first policy decision.• I put my feet down carefully.• I put my foot down and the car began to move forward.• She didn't answer, just put her foot down and sent the Cortina faster and faster through the night.• Justice puts its foot down on Oxie.• I wanted to take a year off before college, but my mother put her foot down.

14. put your feet up informalREST to relax, especially by sitting with your feet supported on something 擱起腳休息

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put your feet up• Take off your coat and put your feet up.• E for elevation, otherwise known as putting your feet up.• Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes.• He pushed the ottoman over and I put my feet up.• Well, at least put your feet up for a few minutes. Would you like a drink?• Tammuz had dimmed the lights, put his feet up, and asked the computer to tune in the wall-screen.• That boy needs a lot of teaching, he thought, putting his feet up.• When you're pregnant and doing a full-time job, you must find time to put your feet up.• He says it gave him time to put his feet up and relax.

15 put your foot in it especially British EnglishBrE, put your foot in your mouth especially American EnglishMISTAKE to say something without thinking carefully, so that you embarrass or upset someone 失言，講錯話，〔因說話随便而〕惹怒人

I’ve really put my foot in it this time. I didn’t realize that was her husband!

我這次真是講錯話了，我沒想到那人是她的丈夫！

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put your foot in it• She's a little weird isn't she? Oh no, have I put my foot in my mouth? Is she a friend of yours?• Somehow, with her usual clumsiness, she had opened her mouth and put her foot in it.• It wasn't her fault if she had a gift for putting her foot in it.• Glover had put his foot in it somehow.• It was immediately clear that he had put his foot in it.• I have put my foot in it.• Simon wanted to finish the conversation before he put his foot in it any further.• As creative types, we're notoriously unpredictable, and thus liable to put our foot in it in front of touchy clients.

16 start/get off on the wrong/right foot START DOING somethingto start a relationship badly or well 開始時關系不好/好

Simon and I got off on the wrong foot but we’re good friends now.

我和西蒙一開始相處不來，但是現在成了好朋友。

17. not put a foot wrong British EnglishBrECORRECT to do everything right and make no mistakes, especially in your job 〔尤指工作中〕做事正確無誤

18 have/keep your feet on the ground SENSIBLEto think in a sensible and practical way and not have ideas or aims that will be impossible to achieve 實事求是，腳踏實地

It was a great result, but we have to keep our feet firmly on the ground.

這個結果很好，但我們還是得腳踏實地。

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have/keep your feet on the ground• She's really creative, but she also has her feet firmly on the ground.• So I guess inversely he taught me the need to be prepared and keep both feet on the ground.

19 fall/land on your feet to get into a good situation because you are lucky, especially after being in a difficult situation 逢兇化吉，化險爲夷

Don’t worry about Nina, she always falls on her feet.

别爲尼娜擔心，她每次都能逢兇化吉。

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fall/land on your feet• He pushed the floor, and flipped over in the air, landing on his feet.• After some ups and downs, young Mr Davison has landed on his feet.• Forgive the cliché, but for once I have fallen on my feet.• Jonathon is a trained musician filling in as a cleaner between jobs and he fell on his feet at the Oxford Playhouse.• However he landed on his feet.• Even in an industry that shrinks faster than microwave bacon, the good people landed on their feet.• This is a company that tends to land on its feet.

20. get/have/keep your foot in the door CHANCE/OPPORTUNITYto get your first opportunity to work in a particular organization or industry 獲得機會加入〔某機構〕，得以首次涉足〔某行業〕

21. have a foot in both camps BOTHto be involved with or connected with two opposing groups of people 腳踏兩只船，騎牆

22 at your feet used to say that people admire or respect someone very much 令某人/某事物拜倒在某人腳下

All Paris was at his feet.

整個巴黎都拜倒在他腳下。

→ have the world at your feet at world1(24)

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at your feet• I have lain at his feet.

23. have two left feet informalCLUMSY to be very clumsy 笨拙，笨手笨腳

24. have one foot in the grave OLD/NOT NEWILLto be very old or very ill – used humorously 〔老得或病得〕一只腳已踏進墳墓，離死不遠〔幽默用法〕

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have one foot in the grave• She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.

25 ... my foot! British EnglishBrE old-fashionedBELIEVE used to show that you do not believe something that someone has just said 算了吧，去你的，得了〔表示不相信對方的話〕

£50 my foot! It’ll cost £200 at least.

怎麽可能50英鎊！這至少得200英鎊。

26 leave feet first DIEto die before you leave a place or job – used humorously 還沒離開[離職]就沒命了〔幽默用法〕

If you keep fooling around with that gun you’ll be leaving this camp feet first.

如果你還要瞎擺弄那支槍，就得橫着離開這個營地了。

27. feet of clay FAULT/something WRONGsomeone that you admire who has feet of clay has faults and weaknesses that you did not realize they had 〔偶像的〕不爲人知的弱點，内在缺點

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feet of clay• Jay swept away what she had learned in pain about feet of clay and natural caution.• Another hero with foot and mouth disease, feet of clay and a mouth less than squeaky clean.• Still, she thought ruefully, most heroes would have feet of clay if studied closely.• The discovery of his idol's feet of clay proves intolerable to the lonely, emotionally stunted fan.• After all, audiences want to be entertained, not see their idols with feet of clay.• Was it, perhaps, in the 1960s that the notion became clear that no idol can exist without feet of clay?

28. foot soldier/patrol PMAa soldier or group of soldiers that walks and does not use a horse or a vehicle 步兵/步兵巡邏隊

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foot soldier/patrol• Dreben says that he never talks about his experiences as a foot soldier, but they were certainly horrific.• Each foot soldier also carried a bow, twelve arrows and a spare bowstring as standard equipment.• The columns included foot soldiers, artillery and cavalry units, white-topped sup-ply wagons, and dark-hued ambulances.• These were organized into four divisions of foot soldiers and about 500 light cavalry.• In such cases, the environment provides foot soldiers with confusing signals regarding the acceptable level and forms of political activism.• Hayworth is one of the many first-term Republican foot soldiers who proudly fall into lockstep behind Rep.• Barbarossa's foot soldiers were often still attired like this eleventh-century warrior.• It is important to emphasize any explanation of the foot soldiers is highly contingent upon the environment in which they are operating.

29. foot passenger a passenger on a ship who has not brought a car with them 〔渡輪上的〕步行旅客，無車旅客

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foot passenger• There was considerable shipping traffic; many wheeled vehicles mingled with the throng of foot passengers.• Where the foot passenger steps on to the limits before the vehicle reaches them, the driver must accord precedence.

a) left-footed/right-footedDS using your left foot or right foot when you kick a ball 〔踢球時〕用左腳的/用右腳的

b) flat-footed/four-footedHBHHBA having a particular type or number of feet 平足的/四足的

31. foot pedal/brake/pump etc Ta machine or control that you operate using your feet 踏板/腳刹車/腳踏泵等

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foot pedal/brake/pump etc• I also use a Boogie and split the signal from a foot pedal to two amps usually.• He then, with a foot pedal, activates the wire-cutter.• I hear the rat-ta-ta-tat of the foot pedal, as she stitches along.• The amount of push, and therefore the direction the nose points, is controlled by pushing the foot pedals.

32. SOCK 襪the foot DCCthe part of a sock that covers your foot 襪底

33. poetry 詩 technicalAL a part of a line of poetry in which there is one strong beat and one or two weaker ones 音步

→ the boot is on the other foot at boot1(6), → get/have cold feet at cold1(6), → underfoot, → drag your feet/heels at drag1(8), → find your feet at find1(18), → from head to foot at head1(1), → stand on your own (two) feet at stand1(31), → sweep somebody off their feet at sweep1(14), → have itchy feet at itchy(3), → not let the grass grow under your feet at grass1(6), → vote with your feet at vote1(8)

n COLLOCATIONS

adjectives

left foot

My left foot ached a bit.

right foot

He has broken a bone in his right foot.

front foot (=of an animal)

The tiger has five claws in each of its front feet.

back/hind foot (=of an animal)

The horse lifted its back foot.

big/small

He had small neat feet.

bare (=without any socks or shoes)

The marble floor felt cold under his bare feet.

flat (=having a medical condition in which someone’s feet rest flat on the ground, with no curved part)

We’ve both got slightly flat feet.

booted/sandalled feet (=wearing boots or sandals)

He put down his rucksack and stretched out his booted feet.

verbs

injure/hurt your foot

Simon injured his foot while playing rugby.

somebody’s foot hurts

She complained that her foot was hurting.

raise/lift your feet

He raised his foot off the floor and rested it on a chair.

drag your feet (=walk slowly in an unwilling way)

I was dragging my feet because I didn’t want to get there.

wipe your feet (=wipe your shoes on a mat to remove dirt)

Be sure to wipe your feet before coming into the house.

stamp your feet (=bang them noisily on the ground)

He stamped his feet in an attempt to keep warm.

tap your feet (=bang them gently on the ground)

She was tapping her feet in time with the music.

shuffle your feet (=make small movements with them, because you are nervous or impatient)

Ken shuffled his feet and looked down at the floor.

foot + NOUN

a foot injury

He suffered a foot injury during the match against Sporting Lisbon.

a foot massage

Would you like a foot massage?

phrases

the sole of your foot (=the base of your foot, that you walk on)

The soles of her feet were aching from the long walk.

the ball of your foot (=the rounded part of your foot at the base of the toes)

He has a blister on the ball of his foot.

the heel of your foot (=the curved back part of your foot )

He kicked his opponent with the heel of his foot.

at somebody’s feet (=on the ground, near your feet)

The dog was sitting at his master’s feet.

in your stockinged/stocking feet (=not wearing shoes)

She stood 5ft 6 inches tall in her stockinged feet.

my feet are killing me informal (=my feet are hurting)

Examples from the Corpus

foot• a two-foot-long board• Fat ewes topped at £49 and ewes with lambs at foot £68.50.• It was always worse going down, and spiral stairs were the very devil in the dark if you had big feet.• She crossed backwards, blindfolded, wearing peach baskets on her feet.• And there was sand beneath my feet.• My foot hurts.• He's six feet tall, with blonde hair and a mustache.• We fell asleep listening to the surf chisel away at the foot of the cliff below.• There's a run in the foot of my nylons.• Is Daddy tickling your feet, Lisa?

at her feet• Mr Rolleman was lying almost at her feet, his eyes staring blindly upward from a face of ghastly purple.• With eel in her hand, the baby at her feet, Sethe dozed, dry-mouthed and sweaty.• Isabel wrenched her gaze from the limp body at her feet.• Like her father, she looked down at her feet, and waited for the giggling lady to sweep by her.• She looked down at her feet, and felt her blood run cold.• She watched it slip and slide this way and that to fall at her feet.• Lumberjack sprawled on the tiles at her feet, whining softly in his sleep like a damp log on a fire.

a one-/two-/three- etc foot something• I received £300 prize money and a three foot tall trophy.• I have mine in a two foot community tank.• In this case, it is a two foot pike.• Large tank required I am going to set up a two foot tank.• From the garage he took a felling axe with a three foot handle and shattered his parents' skulls.• An oil tank behind with a three foot bund wall all around in which more than a foot of mobile oil stands.

foot2 verb

foot the bill PAY FORto pay for something, especially something expensive that you do not want to pay for 付賬〔尤指不情願地爲昂貴的東西付錢〕

He ordered drinks and then left me to foot the bill!

他要了酒水，然後讓我來付賬！

Examples from the Corpus

foot the bill• It will be, as usual, the taxpayer who will be footing the bill.• These two mindless cads decided to bring the girl along to the East and have her foot the bill.• Individuals in dysfunctional environments often be-come dysfunctional in other aspects of their lives, with their organizations ultimately footing the bill.• Sometimes they came alone, sometimes with a man in tow - to foot the bill!• The program asks businesses to foot the bill for daily newspapers in the classroom.• Her father is footing the bill for lessons, which cost about $ 100 for two hours.• Airlines currently foot the bill for the security systems.• Many customers will have to foot the bill for water meters, which most companies will eventually install.• It has already been argued in some detail that foot the bill is semantically transparent.• If taxpayers footed the bill, those costs might well be higher.

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