heel
heel 英 [hi:l] 美 [hil]
n. 脚后跟;踵 vt. 倾侧,倾斜
进行时:heeling 过去式:heeled 过去分词:heeled 第三人称单数:heels 名词复数:heels
- Your heel is the rear part of your foot. Most people walk by placing their weight first on one heel, then shifting to their toes before stepping with the opposite foot.
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- n. 脚后跟;踵
- vt. 倾侧,倾斜
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1. shoes with a low heel, shoes with a high heel
低╱高跟鞋
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2. The sergeant clicked his heels and walked out.
中士将鞋跟咔哒一并,走了出去。
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3. high-heeled shoes
高跟鞋
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4. She doesn't often wear heels.
她不常穿高跟鞋。
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5. The boat heeled over in the strong wind.
船在狂风中倾侧了。
- heel (n.1) "back of the foot," Old English hela, from Proto-Germanic *hanhilon (source also of Old Norse hæll, Old Frisian hel, Dutch hiel), from PIE *kenk- (3) "heel, bend of the knee" (source also of Old English hoh "hock").
- heel (n.2) "contemptible person," 1914 in U.S. underworld slang, originally "incompetent or worthless criminal," perhaps from a sense of "person in the lowest position" and thus from heel (n.1).
- heel (v.1) of a dog, "to follow or stop at a person's heels," 1810, from heel (n.1). Also see heeled.
- heel (v.2) "to lean to one side," usually in reference to a ship, re-spelled 16c. from Middle English hield (probably by misinterpretation of -d as a past tense suffix), from Old English hieldan "incline, lean, slope," from Proto-Germanic *helthijan (source also of Middle Dutch helden "to lean," Dutch hellen, Old Norse hallr "inclined," Old High German halda, German halde "slope, declivity"). Related: Heeled; heeling.
- heel (v.3) "furnish with a heel," of a shoe, boot, etc., c.1600, from heel (n.1). Related: Heeled; heeling.
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