英语词源
- flat-footed (adj.)
- c. 1600, "with flat feet;" see flat (adj.) + foot (n.). Meaning "unprepared" is from 1912, U.S. baseball slang, on notion of "not on one's toes;" earlier in U.S. colloquial adverbial use it meant "straightforwardly, downright, resolute" (1828), from notion of "standing firmly."
权威例句
- 1. Early American weathervanes were most often cut from flat wooden boards.
- 美国早期的风向标大多截自平直的木板。
- 2. Warm weather has attracted the flat fish close to shore.
- 煦暖的气候将比目鱼引到了近海。
- 3. Two years later he is flat broke and on the dole.
- 两年后，他一贫如洗，靠失业救济金生活。
- 4. She had small feet and hands and a flat, round face.
- 她的手脚都很小，脸又扁又圆。
- 5. I lay the painting flat to stop the wet paint running.
- 我把油画平放以防止未干的颜料流动。