heel的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT足跟;腳後跟;踵

Your heel is the back part of your foot, just below your ankle.

N-COUNT（鞋）後跟

The heel of a shoe is the raised part on the bottom at the back.

• He kicked it shut with the heel of his boot.

  他用靴子的後跟將它踢上。

• ...the shoes with the high heels.

  高跟鞋

N-PLURAL（女式）高跟鞋

Heels are women's shoes that are raised very high at the back.

• ...two well-dressed ladies in high heels...

  兩位穿著高跟鞋、打扮入時的女士

• ...the old adage that you shouldn't wear heels with trousers.

  高跟鞋不能和褲子搭配的俗話

N-COUNT（襪子的）後跟

The heel of a sock or stocking is the part that covers your heel.

N-COUNT（近腕處的）手掌根

The heel of your hand is the rounded pad at the bottom of your palm.

• He shoved the heel of his hand against the side of my face.

  他用手掌根使勁推我的臉頰。

PHRASE緊跟在後

If a person or an animal is at your heels, they are following close behind you.

• She strode off down the restaurant with Cavendish following close at her heels.

  她大步向餐館裡面走去，卡文迪什緊隨其後。

PHRASE使聽話;使就範

If you bring someone to heel, you force them to obey you.

• It's still not clear how the president will use his power to bring the republics to heel.

  總統將如何行使自己的權力使共和黨人就範仍不太清楚。

PHRASE咔嚓一聲立正（敬禮或問候）

If someone such as a soldier clicks their heels, they make a sound by knocking the heels of their shoes together when saluting or greeting someone.

• ...a courtly European who still clicked his heels when he met a lady.

  遇見女士仍咔嚓一聲行禮的彬彬有禮的歐洲人

PHRASE久等;空等

If you are cooling your heels, someone is deliberately keeping you waiting, so that you get bored or impatient.

• Cohen didn't mention that he had Ted Forstmann cooling his heels in a back room.

  科恩沒有提起自己讓泰德·福斯特曼在後室裡空等的事。

PHRASE堅持立場;固執己見

If you dig your heels in or dig in your heels, you refuse to do something such as change your opinions or plans, especially when someone is trying very hard to make you do so.

• It was really the British who, by digging their heels in, prevented any last-minute deal.

  實際上是因為英國人拒不讓步，才使得最後一刻達成協議的希望落空了。

PHRASE（時間上）緊跟…之後，緊接著

If you say that one event follows hard on the heels of another or hot on the heels of another, you mean that one happens very quickly or immediately after another.

• Unfortunately, bad news has come hard on the heels of good...

  很遺憾，好訊息的後面緊跟著就是壞訊息。

• The visit follows hot on the heels of their season at the Edinburgh International Festival.

  他們在愛丁堡國際藝術節上的表演季一結束，緊接著又要出訪。

PHRASE緊追…之後;緊隨…之後

If you say that someone is hot on your heels, you are emphasizing that they are chasing you and are not very far behind you.

• They sped through the American southwest with the law hot on their heels.

  他們飛車穿越美國西南部，警察緊追其後。

PHRASE無聊地等;不耐煩地等待

If you are kicking your heels, you are having to wait around with nothing to do, so that you get bored or impatient.

• The authorities wouldn't grant us permission to fly all the way down to San Francisco, so I had to kick my heels at Tunis Airport.

  當局不允許我們直飛舊金山，所以我只好在突尼西亞機場不耐煩地等待。

PHRASE（尤指因生氣或吃驚而）突然轉身

If you turn on your heel or spin on your heel, you suddenly turn round, especially because you are angry or surprised.

• He simply turned on his heel and walked away.

  他突然就轉身走開了。

PHRASE逃走;腳底開溜

If you take to your heels, you run away.

• He stood, for a moment, staring defiantly back at her, then took to his heels.

  他站著不服地回瞪了她一會兒，然後就逃走了。