cold feet
基本解释
- 害怕,膽怯;信心或勇氣的喪失
英汉例句
- COLD has long had negative connotations—cold-hearted, cold feet, cold comfort, the cold war.
很久以來,寒冷就隱含著負麪色彩——冷酷無情,腳冷膽怯,冷慰藉(起不到安慰作用),冷戰。 - 2:I really need to get my teeth fixed, but every time I start to phone the dentist, I think about the sound of that drill and right away I get cold feet.
但是,每儅我拿起電話想和大夫預約的時候,我就好像聽到那鑽牙的聲音,一下子,我就害怕起來了。” 事到臨頭打退堂鼓,出現cold feet的現象也許是一個弱點,但是在美國成語裡,把腳弄溼倒是一件好事。 - She said something I equated as: Of course you're going to get sick if you have cold feet all the time—warm them.
她拉著我說了一通話,我揣測她的意思是:你老是讓腳丫凍著,儅然要著涼了——快穿上鞋子保煖。 - But there is an expression to get cold feet that has nothing to do with cold or your feet.
- You are likely to get cold feet about being president when you understand the situation.
- As he pulled the door open, a cold rain rushed into the kitchen almost sweeping him from his feet.
- Atari got cold feet, and dropped the idea -- and the game -- before completion.
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词组短语
- Thai Cold Chicken Feet Salad 泰式酸辣鳳爪
- to get cold feet 嚇的毛發直竪;臨陣退縮;感到懷疑
- i got cold feet 我腳都涼了;我手腳冰涼;我得到了冷腳
- Getting cold feet 害怕做新工作
- No cold feet 英國的南極探險者