underfoot

大学 FREQ #31109

adv. 在脚下, 碍事地 [经] 少计总额

发音

US /ʌndɚˈfʊt/
UK /ʌndəˈfʊt/

词形变化

underfoots 复数 underfoots underfooted underfooting underfoots 三单 underfooting 现在分词 underfooted 过去式 underfooted 过去分词

别名

underfeet

教材释义与例句

副词

在脚下；践踏地；在脚下面

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A storage compartment that sits below the deck of a boat.

v.
  1. 1.

    To provide a footing beneath; to shore up or underpin.

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  2. 2.

    To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.

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adj.
  1. 1.

    Situated under one's foot or feet.

  2. 2.

    In the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder.

  3. 3.

    Downtrodden; abject.

adv.
  1. 1.

    Under one's foot or feet.

    在脚下

    The workers were all big, burly, hard-hearted men, tromping through the marsh in their heavy boots without sparing so much as a single thought for the masses of tiny frogs they crushed underfoot.

  2. 2.

    In the way; situated so as to obstruct or hinder.

    It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot.

词源

From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).

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