footstep

英 [ˈfʊtstep]

美 [ˈfʊtstep]

n.  脚步声; 足迹

复数：footsteps　

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习惯用语

n.

follow in sb's footsteps
• 仿效某人
  to do the same job, have the same style of life, etc. as sb else, especially sb in your family
• She works in television, following in her father's footsteps.
  她步她父亲的后尘，在电视台工作。

牛津词典

noun

• 脚步声；足迹
  the sound or mark made each time your foot touches the ground when you are walking or running
  1. the sound of footsteps on the stairs
     楼梯上的脚步声
  2. footsteps in the snow
     雪地上的足迹

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 脚步声;足迹
  Afootstepis the sound or mark that is made by someone walking each time their foot touches the ground.
  1. I heard footsteps outside.
     我听见了外面的脚步声。
• PHRASE 效仿;步…后尘
  If youfollow insomeone'sfootsteps, you do the same things as they did earlier.
  1. My father is extremely proud that I followed in his footsteps and became a doctor.
     我的父亲非常自豪，因为我继承他的事业，成为了一名医生。

英英释义

noun

• the act of taking a step in walking
• the sound of a step of someone walking
  1. he heard footsteps on the porch
  Synonym:footfallstep
• the distance covered by a step
  1. he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig
  Synonym:pacestepstride

双语例句

• Perhaps the person of that in a dream hides deep place at the white cloud, past fog of the eyeful, was fond of me to return of footstep.
  也许那梦中的人藏匿在白云深处，故揽了满眼的雾，迷了我归去的脚步。
• I heard footsteps outside.
  我听见了外面的脚步声。
• But now, Pearl, I hear a footstep along the path, and the noise of one putting aside the branches.
  不过，珠儿，这会儿我听到有脚步声沿着小路走来，还有拨开树枝的声音。
• The footstep and singing were more and more close, and walk towards directly our Home.
  沙沙声和歌声越走越近，径直向我们家门口走来。
• I met you abruptly, with violently beating heart and light footstep to come around you: "heyhey, stinking cookroach, you must be dead this time."
  突然和你相遇，心一阵狂跳，我放轻了脚步，悄悄来到你身旁，“嘿嘿，臭蟑螂，这次年死定啦！”
• You tread behind his every footstep.
  你跟踪着他的沉重的脚步。
• A more elastic footstep entered next;
  跟着有人踏着轻快的脚步进来了；
• His footstep triggered off the hand grenade.
  他的脚步触发了手榴弹。
• And thus much of woman was there in Hester, that she could scarcely forgive him-least of all now, when the heavy footstep of their approaching Fate might be heard, nearer, nearer, nearer!
  而由于海丝特身上存在着那么多女性的东西，她简直难以原谅他尤其是此时此刻，当他们面临的命运之神的沉重的脚步已经可以听得见是越走越近的时候！
• Often remind of me exclamation life of footstep, I why I most demand person to comfort my time, they be whole heartless disappear here boundless world in.
  每每想起我就感叹人生的脚步，我为什么我最需要人来安慰我的时候，他们全无情的消失在这个茫茫世界中。