tiptoe around
基本解释
- 小心翼翼（非正式）
- 回避（非正式）
英汉例句
- It's just that he is often a bit too eager to tiptoe around them.
这仅仅是因为，作者往往太过急切，没有小心翼翼绕过他们。 - Now a Professor at Buckingham University, Mr Woodhead has never been one to tiptoe around fundamental issues, however explosive they may be.
现任白金汉大学教授 Woodhead 先生可不是个会在那些涉及基本原则的话题面前踯躅不前的人，不管那些话题有多劲爆。 - When we visited my grandparents in their Manhattan apartment, I would tiptoe around Grandpa, fearful of brushing against him and drawing his ire.
当我们访问祖父母位于曼哈顿的寓所时，我会紧紧盯着爷爷，小心翼翼，生怕惹他老人家生气。 - Cappelli's side business works, in part, because he doesn't have to tiptoe around a boss.
FORBES: Magazine Article - This is a bedrock argument of the Obamacare foes, and it must tiptoe around some inconvenient facts of daily life such as state car insurance mandates (they are state laws, and states have practically unlimited powers under the Constitution).
FORBES: Florida Judge's ObamaCare Ruling Passionate, If Futile
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权威例句
词组短语
- tiptoe around them 伤不起