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足尖；脚趾
Your toes are the five movable parts at the end of each foot.
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(鞋、袜的)足尖部
The toe of a shoe or sock is the part that covers the end of your foot.
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PHRASE
稍加尝试;谨慎尝试
If you dip your toes into something or dip your toes into the waters of something, you start doing that thing slowly and carefully, because you are not sure whether it will be successful or whether you will like it.
例句
This may encourage gold traders to dip their toes back into the markets...
这可能会促使黄金交易商谨慎地尝试重返市场。
Universities are dipping their toes in the waters of management education.
各大学正开始尝试进入管理教育领域。
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PHRASE
使保持警觉
If you say that someone or something keeps you on your toes, you mean that they cause you to remain alert and ready for anything that might happen.
例句
His fiery campaign rhetoric has kept opposition parties on their toes for months.
他激烈的竞选言辞使反对党派一连几个月都保持警觉。
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PHRASE
听从;服从
If you toe the line, you behave in the way that people in authority expect you to.
例句
...attempts to persuade the rebel members to toe the line...
说服叛乱分子顺从政府的努力
He's one of the politicians that wouldn't toe the party line.
他是不肯服从政党路线的几个政客之一。
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PHRASE
触犯;得罪
If you tread on someone's toes, you offend them by criticizing the way that they do something or by interfering in their affairs.
例句
I must be careful not to tread on their toes. My job is to challenge, but not threaten them.
我必须小心谨慎，不能得罪他们。我的工作是挑战他们，而不是威胁他们。