| 词汇 | tread water |
| 释义 | tread watertread water (past tensepst and past participlepp treaded) a) DSSto stay floating upright in deep water by moving your legs as if you are riding a bicycle 〔游泳时〕踩水 b) PROGRESSto make no progress in a particular situation, especially because you are waiting for something to happen 〔尤指因等待某事发生而〕徘徊观望 All I could do was tread water until the contracts arrived. 我能做的就是等待，直到合同送来。 Examples from the Corpus tread water• A few persist in southern Florida, where, literally and figuratively, they appear to be treading water.• All the time he thought he was gaining westward, he had been virtually treading water.• In these times well financed companies can afford to tread water and pick off suitable acquisitions without pressure.• He trod water and realized at once how cold he was.• He treads water in heavy seas, yelling to search planes overhead.• We will always remember the mobile of seagulls treading water over Edale.• The album was treading water, the tour decent enough. → tread water at tread1(3) |
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