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单词 walk
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Definition of walk in English:

walk

verb wɔːkwɔk

  • 1no object, usually with adverbial Move at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, never having both feet off the ground at once.

    走，步行

    I walked across the lawn

    我走过草坪。

    she turned and walked a few paces

    她转过身，走了几步。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I continued to walk, my pace quickening once I was in a somewhat safer place.
    • That's perfect for me because I can walk at a good pace and he can drive like a madman.
    • As there are never any gaps in the traffic, you simply have to step out into the road and keep walking at a steady pace.
    • I got really excited and I started to walk at a faster pace to catch up with the procession.
    • She walked at her normal pace ignoring those behind her wanting to go faster.
    • I can even walk more than ten paces in three inch heels now, too!
    • Every time I lifted my foot to walk, my other foot stuck to the ground and caused me to fall forward.
    • Holmes though was not in the mood for praise and walked at a pace that I struggled to maintain.
    • I took a quick step back before walking forward, lifting my leg, and kicking the door open.
    • We carried on walking at a steady pace, turned another corner and stopped at a pale green door.
    • I was almost too scared to leave the flat, and when I did I walked with the pace of a 90 year old.
    • Jude tied his three gourds to his belt, then walked with a measured pace downstream.
    • Eve's footsteps were echoing off the dank walls as she walked forward a few paces.
    • Adaela flashed James a venomous smile and began walking at a faster pace.
    • It looked up at me and meowed again, and when I started walking, it kept pace with me.
    • While other students were hurrying to get to class, Rocky was walking at a semi-leisurely pace.
    • Lauren looked around, but saw nothing, and kept going, walking at a faster pace.
    • He saw how a fragment of leg bone fitted into the foot bones, and knew those feet were made for walking on the ground, not moving in trees.
    • She walked at a comfortable pace until she was about two yards away from Jen.
    • With that I sneered and walked off, my pace quick with the heat of getting myself angry again.
    Synonyms
    stroll, saunter, amble, wend one's way, trudge, plod, hike, tramp, trek, march, stride, troop, patrol, step out, wander, ramble, tread, prowl, footslog, promenade, roam, traipse
    stretch one's legs, go for a walk, take the air
    advance, proceed, move, go, make one's way
    informal mosey, pootle
    British informal yomp
    rare perambulate
    go by/on foot, travel on foot, foot it, be a pedestrian
    informal go by/on Shanks's pony, hoof it
    1. 1.1 Go on foot for recreation and exercise.
      散步；漫步
      you can walk in 21,000 acres of moorland

      你可以在21，000英亩的山地和高沼地里漫步。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • If you are busy doing lots of work, I suggest you exercise. Take time to walk or climb.
      • His workshop is an introduction to a healthy lifestyle of fun, walking and exercise and lasts for ninety minutes.
      • After he had his stroke, the doctor suggested he should do some exercise, walking or even a bit of gentle cycling.
      • Exercise daily by walking and/or swimming until it no longer feels comfortable.
      • The other most important aspect is exercise, walking, aerobics, dancing, skipping, whatever takes your fancy.
      • Light exercises such as walking, hiking and swimming are beneficial.
      • Exercise may include walking, gardening, dancing, or use of a stationary bicycle.
      • The aim is to encourage people who never do any exercise to walk for half an hour a day, five days a week, and to educate people about the benefits of walking.
      • He lists his recreations as walking, cruising, theatre, painting and travel.
      • Even moderate exercise, like walking, can help you get a better night's sleep.
      • You may need to avoid strenuous exercise for up to a month, but walking and gentle exercises are encouraged.
      • Patients must be initiated into simple exercises such as walking.
      • Aerobic exercises such as walking, swimming, and biking are also beneficial.
      • His day is spent managing his pain, doing his exercises and walking.
      • Saying that, I have been swimming like a fish, walking and doing my exercises every second day, which isn't bad at all.
      • Doctors now advocate light physical exercises such as walking and sometimes, even swimming.
      • The only exercise I get is walking up and down the beach and, of course, surfing.
      • Obviously, caution should be exercised when walking on tinder dry moorlands.
      • Even moderate exercise, such as walking, has real health benefits if you do it regularly all year round.
      • Check with your doctor for permission to do light exercise, such as walking.
    2. 1.2with object Travel over (a route or area) on foot.
      沿（某线路）步行，行走，走过（某地区）
      the police department has encouraged officers to walk the beat

      警察局鼓励警官沿划定路线步行巡逻。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Orangemen said it was their right to walk their only route home.
      • Officials from County Hall were then sent to walk the route for themselves to see whether they believed it was safe.
      • Mrs O'Callaghan added that he had walked the route on several occasions before.
      • Then as we walk a route it will be coloured to show where we have been.
      • One of our managers has also visited the area and walked the ground to assess all aspects of accessibility.
      • The group have walked the route and informed Bradford Council of potential problems and repairs that need to be made to the footpath.
      • Residents of the parish would walk the route, carrying willow wands to beat special stones at set points around the parish boundary.
      • In part, because of that, I believe that officers walking the foot beat is a good thing.
      • Instead of walking the same dull route, let your curiosity be your guide.
      • Audiences access these soundscapes with headphones as they walk a predetermined route through the city.
      • During the course of the run they also made some friends, in a group of Spanish pilgrims who were walking the same route.
      • Having walked the area one Sunday morning recently, he said that the bins were full to capacity.
      • When you walk this route as I do, you see what you miss when you fly past in a car.
      • We decided to walk a route we may do on Sunday with our walking group.
      • We are reasonably experienced walkers, acceptably fit and have walked the route several times before.
      • The 21 women range from ten years old to over 60 and some will be walking the three-mile route.
      • We were also told that they would be joined by a couple of students that were walking the route.
      • I recently attended a meeting in Central Park where a considerable number of us walked the route of the proposed road.
      • But perhaps the biggest change was in the number of pilgrims walking the yatra route.
      • But what about his friends, he wanted to know, who walk the same route?
    3. 1.3 Used to suggest that someone has achieved a state or position easily or undeservedly.
      轻易地（或不当地）获得地位（或职位）
      no one has the right to walk straight into a well-paid job for life

      谁也没有权利轻易地直接获得一份终身的高薪职业。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • After studying computer service technology at college, he walked straight into a job as an electronics engineer.
      • She walked straight into a business analyst position with a major consulting firm after graduating in economics and government.
    4. 1.4 Move in a similar way to walking, but using one's hands or a support such as stilts.
      he could walk on his hands carrying a plate on one foot

      他可以用一只脚顶着碟子，双手撑地行走。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Marie also remembers him learning to ride a bike, them both walking on stilts and playing at the beach.
      • Clara is like an angel when she walks on stilts, beating her drum.
      • Dougie is not a musician but he can be seen walking on stilts at street carnivals and festivals as he is a professional clown.
      • Juggling, walking on stilts and even dressing up as clowns were some of the activities on offer.
      • The focal point of the creation was a 10 ft tall figure which he carried and operated, while walking on stilts.
      • During the past week campers learnt the art of African and tassa drumming, how to walk on stilts and how to put together an atlas.
    5. 1.5 (of a quadruped) proceed with the slowest gait, always having at least two feet on the ground at once.
      （四足动物）慢步走
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Here, Ramirez reined in his horse and they walked forward at a sedate trot.
      • Your horse stays by your side always and that includes walking next to you into a trailer.
      • Now they would have to wait for some hours before the horses were able to walk again.
      • She turned around again, and stroked her stallion's mane as he walked beside her.
      • You apply the aids for a left lead canter and the horse just keeps walking along as though nothing changed at all.
      • In pre-railway racing, horses had to walk from one race to another, which sometimes took weeks.
      • This distinguishes walking from faster gaits in which ground contact is absent for brief periods.
    6. 1.6with object Ride (a horse) at the slowest pace.
      骑（马）慢步走
      he walked his horse towards her

      他骑着马，向她慢步走过去。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Just keep walking the horse up to the last point behind the trailer where it is still comfortable and stay there.
      • He began to walk his horse towards me, pushing me into line with the other men.
      • Each assistant walks the horses thru every step of the pattern, never letting the horse make even the slightest errors.
      • They walked their horses back to the stables and then handed them off to the stable boys.
      • Diana shook her head and walked her horse towards what was left of the village.
      • In my childhood we lived near Berkhamsted and I walked and rode my pony in the woods at Ashridge.
      • You can walk your stallion right past a mare and have him pay no attention if you don't want him to.

  • 2with object and adverbial of direction Guide, accompany, or escort (someone) on foot.

    给…领路；陪同…走路；步行护送

    he walked her home to her door

    他把她送到家门口。

    figurative a meeting to walk parents through the complaint process

    〈喻〉引导家长按程序提意见的会议。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many parents walk their children to and from school but lots of others live outside the village and need to drive in.
    • Both the young artists were busy today walking visitors through their paintings and clarifying an occasional point or two.
    • One woman, who did not want to be named, said that the bikers even sped past when parents were walking their children home from school.
    • Then you wait for an escort to walk you the remaining 40 yards to the main building.
    • Pretty soon he was escorting me to my classes and walking me home from school.
    • Holly gave Ford a hand getting to his feet, then walked him over to the elevator.
    • I just let my feet walk me towards home in the pattern of streets I'd already started to memorize.
    • This he accomplished on foot, walking the stock down the road through the villages and into the City.
    • The lights were on, so my parents were still up, and Ryan walked me to the front door.
    • She said there had been claims the mothers and fathers who walked their children up the road to school were bad parents.
    • Parents are asked to walk their children to school or use the vehicular access to the junior school.
    • To encourage more parents to walk their children to school Croydon Council is promoting a national campaign.
    • Mrs Watson gets to her feet and walks us back to our homeroom, which is empty because everyone has gone to class.
    • Alex Maxwell, Airdrie-born but now an accomplished local historian, walks me round the town.
    • A digital audio player walks tourists through exhibit spaces such as Alcatraz, the Empire State Building, and the Tower of London.
    • When we finish talking, Johns walks me down to the studio, where he is working on a series of etchings based on works he made in 2003.
    • As the attendant walked her to her seat, she was forcefully aware of all eyes on her.
    • A young woman walks her sons home; sons fathered by different men.
    • A group of mums are using a secret weapon to encourage parents to walk their children to school - pester power.
    • The county council is urging all parents to start walking their children to school, even if it is just for the last half a mile to the school gate itself.
    Synonyms
    accompany, escort, guide, show, see, convoy, conduct, usher, marshal, lead, take, attend, chaperone, steer, herd, shepherd
    1. 2.1with object Take (a dog) out for exercise.
      she spotted a man walking his retriever

      她发现一个男子在遛他那只拾獚。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Early the next morning a woman walking her dog near St Mark's church in Woodhouse, Leeds, saw a man slumped against the churchyard gate.
      • They are places to stroll in pleasant weather, walk dogs and ride horses.
      • The discovery was made by a man walking his dog shortly before 10 am yesterday.
      • Recently, my friend with a lovely new puppy dog showed me a great place to walk the dog.
      • The co-ordinator will link the helpers with those in need of small favours such as taking their children to school or walking their dog.
      • The court heard Wallington and the victim had spoken on about six occasions over a two week period when she was walking her family's dogs last July.
      • Taking a walk for exercise, or to walk a dog for that matter, is thus no longer a pleasurable activity.
      • He walks his dog Jenny, an 11-year-old mongrel, past the river every day and saw the Environment Agency experts inspecting the dead fish.
      • However, a passing man walking his dogs offered to help us.
      • Kathleen chats, reads stories, and offers support such as walking dogs and gardening.
      • I have enjoyed riding horses and also walking my dogs on Baildon Moor for the past 40 years.
      • Often the fact is that we have plenty of time for walking the dog in our neighbourhoods but we seldom spend the time to take a walk to be with our parents.
      • A man walking his dog discovered her body the next morning.
      • It turns out that a year's worth of running for the bus, walking the dog or doing a weekly shopping burns more than 100,000 calories.
      • ON Sunday, April 4 I was walking my dog George along the canal when she collapsed and couldn't walk.
      • But now it's a pleasant place, great for walking my dog or sitting on a bench listening to the breeze rustle the overhanging trees.
      • ‘I will tell you only what I have told the police,’ said an old man who was walking his dog.
      • My family has been walking dogs there for 10 years, on and off, because it is the perfect place for that activity.
      • Out of sight there is a long, straight waterway along which he walks his dogs most days, and I was knocked off my feet with the list of birds and wildlife he's seen there.
      • At about 11 pm on January 24, Mr Shepherd was walking his dog when he passed the youth arguing heatedly with a girl.
    2. 2.2with object Train and look after (a hound puppy).
      训练并看护（小猎犬）

  • 3informal no object (of a thing) go missing or be stolen.

    customers have to leave a deposit to ensure the beer glasses don't walk
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But do you not find pens 'walk' around the office? I can never keep a pen on my desk, whereas one of my colleagues seems to 'breed' them.
    • But do you not find pens 'walk' around the office? I can never keep a pen on my desk.

  • 4North American informal no object Abandon or suddenly withdraw from a job or commitment.

    〈北美，非正式〉放弃；突然退出

    he was in place as the male lead but walked at the eleventh hour
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The country was likely to walk away from the deal.
    • When we arrived over 100 New Orleans P.D. officers had already walked off the job.
    • Should I just walk away from the deal?
    1. 4.1 Be released from suspicion or from a charge.
      〈北美，非正式〉解脱嫌疑，免受控告
      had any of the others come clean during the trial, he might have walked

      如果当时审讯中，其他人中有一个人说出真相，他就可能没事了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Maybe if he hadn't been so foolish by buying books on forensic investigation or in the way he dealt with his car, he might have walked. But he didn't and clearly the jury thought he was guilty.
      • $500.00 bail (that means $50.00) and he walked!

  • 5Cricket
    no object (of a batsman) leave the field without waiting to be given out by the umpire.

    〔板球〕（击球手不等裁判指示）离开球场

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Increasingly, it seems, such restraint, like a batsman walking when he nicks it, has gone the way of the dodo.
    • Javed Omar was the first to fall, trapped lbw for 3-and he was walking before the umpire had raised his finger.
    • Once given LBW by a close friend acting as umpire, Cameron refused to walk until the umpire admitted that he was not really out.
    • There's argument over whether he should try to persuade opposing batsmen to walk when he's convinced they're out.
    • The batsman knows he is out, yet, I've never heard of a match referee suspending a batsman for not walking.

  • 6Baseball
    no object Reach first base automatically after not hitting at four balls pitched outside the strike zone.

    〔棒球〕自由上垒

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Never one to draw many base on balls, Rich is walking at the lowest rate of his career.
    1. 6.1with object Allow or enable (a batter) to walk.
      〔棒球〕使（击球员）自由上垒
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A sacrifice bunt moved Reid to second, and then two more Warriors were walked to load the bases.
      • Jason Michaels flew out and Jimmy Rollins was intentionally walked to load the bases.
      • Things got a bit tense when Gagne walked J.T. Snow on four pitches as well to load the bases.
      • Vaughn walked Heinie Groh twice, but he was erased both times with a double play.
      • After walking Millar, Gordon yielded to Mo, who had a rockier outing than usual.
      • After walking Stanley, Barber was replaced by Miller who got Don Weft to hit a grounder up the middle.
      • Chambers walked eight batters and struck out four in a game that took two hours and one minute to play.

  • 7no object (of a ghost) be visible; appear.

    （鬼魂）出现，出来

    the ghosts of Bannockburn walked abroad

    班诺克本的鬼魂四处游荡。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Can you think of a better foundation to a little child's value system than that age-old nemesis of evil - The Man who cannot die and The Ghost who walks.
    • Sixth Avenue also had its parade of refugees, some of them covered head to foot with white dust, strange walking ghosts among the living.
    • Would she lead me to some isolated lair in the wilderness that was filled with walking zombies?
    • Oral Lee Brown proves that there are angels on earth - walking and living among us.
    • Maybe it's because of who my mother was, or maybe it's because of that ghost I've seen walking.
    • Again, a fear of ghosts walking may be the best explanation for burials that appear ‘respectful’ in all other ways.

  • 8archaic no object Live or behave in a particular way.

    walk humbly with your God

    和你的上帝一起谦恭地生活。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was one with a creation of my own making that I was now living and walking in.
    • I do believe that our paths will cross again, Maria, and we shall walk humbly with our Savior.
    • I was not helped that I had been given an airport taxi driver who was a walking, living embodiment of the Pareto Principle.
    • Having decided to remain here, it makes no sense that I walk around and live in total fear of what could happen to me.
    • You live and walk together, but you may go separate ways - maintaining independence - in your cars.
    • This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
    • He was walking around behaving as close to the Scott she actually knew as he ever let outsiders get.
    • May your purposes always come to pass and may I always hear your voice so that I can humbly walk in the ways you lay before me.
    • Whether we like him or not, the man was born of flesh and blood, and he lived and he walked among us.
    • We walk humbly before God, not claiming divine assurances as our own prerogative.
noun wɔːkwɔk

  • 1An act of travelling or an outing on foot.

    走，步行，行走；散步

    he was too restless to sleep, so he went out for a walk

    他心绪不定，难以入睡，所以出去散步。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He enjoys long walks, romantic dinners, and rescuing hostages.
    • This is a small price to pay for enjoying an invigorating walk along Addingham Moorside or up Beamsley Beacon.
    • There are not going to be many nice days now and I should take the opportunity to enjoy the walks.
    • Back in April, my first walk in the foot and mouth outbreak was at Dalby Forest.
    • You may enjoy your walk more if you take your baby along in a baby carrier.
    • Ramblers of different levels meet every weekend to enjoy walks around the region including the Dales and the North Yorkshire Moors.
    • I suppose that was fair enough and quite honestly I enjoyed the walk.
    • Although there was a small enough turn out the walk was thoroughly enjoyed by all participants.
    • She also said they enjoyed walks in the country and that the doctor bombarded her with text messages at one point.
    • Edward thoroughly enjoyed his walk in the country yesterday.
    • The walk was greatly enjoyed and was a successful fundraiser for the school.
    • Cubbon Park, Lalbagh, and other local parks are the favourites of many Bangaloreans, where they enjoy brisk walks and jogs.
    • A fine crowd enjoyed a lovely walk and the event raised substantial sponsorship for the newly launched project.
    • Seriously, my family have been wonderfully supportive and I hope we'll have time to enjoy a nice walk together.
    • The emphasis on the day will be to enjoy a walk with family and friends for your heart's sake.
    • As well as the flowers, visitors can also enjoy guided walks, evening concerts, plays and themed festivals.
    • This group had enjoyed the walk and we shared that weary satisfaction of knowing our bodies had stood up to a good test.
    • Boaters who attend will receive a brass plaque and everyone can enjoy organised walks along the old section of the canal, a display by morris men, a brass band and an exhibition.
    • All are welcome to come along and enjoy a walk with good company.
    • We like to go for long walks, enjoy wonderful meals and do jigsaw puzzles while listening to the radio and looking at the sea.
    Synonyms
    stroll, saunter, amble, promenade
    ramble, hike, tramp, march
    constitutional, turn, airing, excursion, outing, breather
    1. 1.1in singular Used to indicate the time that it will take to reach a place on foot or the distance to be travelled.
      行走时间；行走路程（或距离）
      the library is within five minutes' walk

      图书馆离这里有约不到5分钟的行程。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Leaving my flat, tuna-nourished, I looked over both shoulders as I took the five minute walk.
      • It is deliberately hard to find, and reportedly involves an eight-mile walk from the nearest road.
      • It was only a five or six minute walk to his own address, but for an unknown reason he decided to take the short cut.
      • The property is only a five minute walk from the local primary school.
      • After a walk of 20 minutes to the bus stop, Weili and I were overwhelmed by the sheer number of people there.
      • A five minute walk across from the International terminal takes us to the circular base of this LA landmark.
      • If you're feeling fit, there's a two-hour walk down from the clifftop path to the village of Yallingup.
      • For some reason, the distance was supposedly a hike, when it was a short walk, maybe five minutes.
      • A half-hour walk along the rough track on the right of the lochan takes you to the base of the buttress.
      • After our houses there is a forest that you can go through; it is only a mile walk before you reach the clubhouse.
      • The passageway was very long, and it was quite a walk before they would reach their destination.
      • Take a five minute walk in any part of the city, and in any direction, and you will see a patrolling uniformed presence.
      • What should have been a five minute walk took me half an hour.
      • Five vehicles almost hit me in the five minute walk from the bakery to work this morning.
      • This seems a little strange since she was staying in The Savoy hotel, a mere five minute walk from the venue.
      • A short distance walk on the street will be good enough for the old and the poor.
      • One's a five minute walk from the Jubilee platform and the other's four, which is pretty poor for such an important transport hub.
      • From there, it was a five minute walk back to the station to catch the train back to York.
      • That walk was only twenty five minutes, although much of it was into the biting East Wind.
      • This caused a bit of a commotion as the hospital grounds are quite large and it was a five minute walk to reach the main entrance.

  • 2A route recommended or marked out for recreational walking.

    （消遣性）散步（或步行）路线

    there are picnic places and waymarked walks
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Following a scenic route the walk is well worth the effort to see this beautiful part of the Slieve Blooms.
    • Every now and then by accident I meet people who do my walks, and out on the bike the other day I bumped into a couple who recommended walks Wetherby way.
    • As is traditional the route for the walk was from Strand Village to Monagea community centre.
    • The day was fine so to become oriented the group was directed to a walk in the reserve.
    • Here one can enjoy walks such as the Everglade, the Apiary Walk and the Via Davidia, and there is also a large collection of specimen trees.
    • Note that sections of the walk route can be slippery when wet.
    • The area includes two recognised Sli Slainte routes and, crucially, most of the walks are off the main road.
    • She then described the route of the walk to a crowd of about 60 and unveiled the map on the signpost.
    • He said the route - outlined in a previously published circular walks leaflet - was around eight miles and could start and finish at Greenberfield Locks.
    • One of Sligo's many beautiful walks starts beside Sligo Airport round by its boundary over to the little church at Killaspugbrone.
    • There are way-marked walks with interpretation panels.
    • The visitor centre was shut, but all we needed was the information board recommending a range of walks.
    • The route for this walk will take in the areas of Knockbarran with its wonderful vistas, and scenery.
    • Howth has a number of restaurants as well as golf courses and scenic walks.
    • For those who prefer gentler exercise there are networks of low level walks to be enjoyed.
    • At the back are many black and white pictures of bygone times in Holgate and Acomb, as well as maps showing the route of each walk.
    • Dovestone Reservoir is also the start and finish point of a 40 mile walk route known as the Oldham Way.
    • The idea of a signposted walk for visitors to enjoy sights in and around Bingley was envisaged more than ten years ago by one of the town's historians.
    • Take part in one of the most breathtaking walks in the region on a nine mile stroll across Morecambe Bay.
    • Their farm lies on two of the routes of a series of walks around Dallowgill organised by the Rotary Club of Ripon.
    Synonyms
    route, beat, round, run, circuit
    1. 2.1 A path.
      小路
      the street lamps illuminated the riverside walk
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Paramedics were called to the riverside walk following the incident at about 11 pm.
      • I got upstairs to my apartment, glanced out the window at the sidewalk, and the walk was being shovelled.
      • But the contractor has started clearing the site so that the riverside walk can be open over the festive period.
      • Linger by canal sides, roam the riverside walks; explore the undersides of old iron bridges, the shadows thrown by motorway flyovers.
      • The new place name signs and the canal walk and nature trail also came in for praise.
      • The remainder of the land will be transformed into an extension for Biss Meadow Country Park and a riverside walk.
      • The riverside walk is a beautiful amenity off the Dunmore Road that requires some remedial work.
      • In the meantime, Spencer's workmen have been cracking on with their other task of refurbishing the riverside walks.
      • The West Country is the part of Britain most visited by walkers and nature lovers, but until now they have had to make do with a patchy network of footpaths and coastal walks.
      • Members of the public are welcome to view the exercise, which can best be seen from the riverside walk.
      • He has them laid out on the asphalt walk where the pedestrian tunnel goes under the platforms.
      • There were some modifications to the design of the riverside walk.
      • They had talked about a riverside walk as a Millennium project and it would be a great boost to the town.
      • The Belleek Forest Park with its attractive riverside walks is well on the way to being a major addition to Ballina's tourist attractions as a natural amenity.
      • New Walk has been further degraded by the removal of wide channels of soil between the tow path and the walk.
      • Good places to try include the Museum Gardens, Rowntree Park or the riverside walk near the Millennium Bridge.
      • Plans for a riverside walk in Tewkesbury have been given a year to make progress or the money will be spent elsewhere.
      • Land on the east side is being earmarked for walks and nature trails.
      • Improvements to the riverside walk and cycle path will also be made.
      • When they reached the front walk of the Nelson house at the top of the hill, Caitlin turned and faced him.
      • On Monday the town council planning committee raised no objection to the new parking area but called for a riverside walk to be provided.
      Synonyms
      pathway, path, footpath, track, lane, alley, alleyway, walkway, promenade, footway, pavement, trail, trackway, ride, towpath
      road, avenue, drive
    2. 2.2British The round followed by a postman.
      〈主英〉（邮递员的）投递路线
      the first job is to sort the mail into routes or walks
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Before going on his 'walk', he would sort the mail delivered by horse and cart from Leominster into a pile for each postman and sub-office.
      • New walks often resulted from a "revision" - a reorganisation of routes following, for example, the building of a significant number of new houses in an area.

  • 3in singular An unhurried rate of movement on foot.

    悠闲的步速

    they crossed the field at a leisurely walk

    他们悠闲地缓步穿过原野。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We started jogging and got to the top of the street we're on and slowed to a walk.
    • Alicia continues on at a brisk pace-leaving Johnny behind at a slow walk, cursing himself.
    • She looked up to the sky and felt her pace slow to a lethargic walk.
    • In your head you're running but you're probably doing a slow walk.
    • My running slowed to an unsteady walk until I found a wooden bench to sit on.
    • As I approached some old oak trees, I slowed to a walk, then stopped entirely.
    • I lowered my pack to the floor and gave her a weary smile as she slowed down to a walk, staring as she approached.
    • I slowed to a walk when I got into the hall, so as not to wake anyone whose room I passed.
    • She whispered, her body shivering violently as she slowed to a walk as she neared the fountain.
    • He reached the construction site and he stopped his jog, slowing to a casual walk.
    • He slowed to a walk along the outskirts of the wood when something caught his eye.
    • He slowed to a walk now, not worrying anymore, and he took a look around at the slight splendor of this.
    • Merissa slowed into a walk as she neared the older woman, coming to a gasping, wheezing stop in front of her.
    • Krane slowed to a walk and examined the injured man before picking up the sword and giving chase to the other.
    • She slowed to a walk, and then stopped, turning around to look down the street.
    • As I ran past one of the gardens I slowed my pace, stumbling into a slow walk.
    • Exhausted, he slowed to a walk, hastily knocking tree limbs out of his way and gasping for air.
    • A slow walk across the street had us traipsing across the grass surrounding the court house.
    • She slowed to a walk and slowly approached her friend, seating herself next to Mary.
    • Pete, using a great amount of discretion, slowed down to a walk and let Gil meet Laurie alone.
    1. 3.1 The slowest gait of an animal.
      （动物的）最慢步态
      she reined her horse to a slow walk
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.
      • In walk, trot and canter, movements such as riding in circles and changing the rein are performed.
      • He flicked the reins and Alberta began to move, first at a slow walk, then at a spirited canter.
      • Suddenly, Lori slowed to a fast walk, then to a trot, and finally stopped all together.
      • I could feel the mare tiring and slowed her into a walk; it would get us nowhere if we killed the horses.
      • The herd had also slowed to a walk, but continued to move away from the bear.
      • They rode down to the barn at a slow walk not saying a word to each other.
      • I love their cries, their shape, their colour, their walk, their flight.
      • The sun had been up for just a few hours when Kayin slowed Star to a walk.
      • We rode to the edge of the clearing to a road, and for nearly an hour went at a slow walk.
      • There was a walk and run race, a walk, trot and canter race and an event called musical mats.
      • Lucian cantered into a walk and Jared dismounted to let the horse rest and drink from the stream.
      • They cantered, unhindered, to the edge of the forest, where they slowed to a walk.
      • The horse is taken through a series of tests, such as the pirouette, piaffe and passage, in a walk, trot and canter.
      • Sarge came charging up the path and when he saw us, slowed to an easy walk.
      • Ace quickly slowed to a walk and turned around, picking up the trot again and she clicked a few times.
    2. 3.2 A person's manner of walking.
      步态
      the spring was back in his walk

      他又恢复了轻盈的步履。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We settled into a brisk walk as we exited through the front doors and entered the parking lot.
      • It definitely had looked like him, and the walk and the manner had seemed all but the same.
      • He led a totally dysfunctional life and you see it in his famous perp walk.
      • However it was her companion who caught his eye, with her slow and cautious manner, and easy walk.
      • Billy began to adapt his walk to the beat of the music and his lips formed the words in silence.
      • Her walk slows, and I know she's planning on giving him all the coins in her pockets and wallet.
      • After several years sufferers may develop a shuffling walk without arm movement.
      • It wasn't like it was incredibly dangerous, but just in case, she slowed to a fast walk.
      • His walk was slow and methodical as he listened to the spattering of the rain.
      Synonyms
      gait, manner of walking, pace, step, stride, tread, carriage, bearing

  • 4British A part of a forest under one keeper.

    （护林人的）管辖林区

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Helen hitches a ride to Ashley Walk with New Forest Verderer Anthony Pasmore.
    • In the mid 16th century a quarter of the walk was set with old oak and the rest with oak, thorn, maple, birch, hazel, withies, holly, and ash.
    • The use of the Forest as an exclusive hunting ground waned during the reign of Charles II and the office of "Keeper of the Walk" became a Grace and Favour appointment.
    1. 4.1 The place where a gamecock is kept.
      斗鸡场

  • 5British A farm where a hound puppy is trained.

  • 6Baseball
    An instance of reaching first base automatically after not hitting at four balls pitched outside the strike zone.

    〔棒球〕自由上垒

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hitters need a good track record of success, with walk rates as a key indicator.
    • He worked eight innings and gave up five runs on nine hits while recording nine strikeouts and four walks.
    • Still winless since his arrival last month, Galva issued four walks and a wild pitch that proved to be the difference in the game.
    • It's still three strikes you're out and four balls for a walk but so much of the fun is gone.
    • In his career, he issued 70 walks in 160 innings pitched and collected 50 strikeouts.

  • 7rare A flock of snipe.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A party of hunters could wipe out a walk of snipe in a morning.
    • They are solitary in habit; who, I wonder, has seen a "walk" of snipes?

Phrases

  • walk before one can run

    • Grasp the basic skills before attempting something more difficult.

      学会走路后再尝试跑步；在试图做更难的事情前得先掌握基本技能

      Example sentencesExamples
      • A point that gets scant attention from Bramble and Lieberman is that one must first learn to walk before one can run.
      • ‘But,’ Doc winced as the glass shattered, ‘You have got to learn how to walk before you can run.’
      • But I believe that, quite sensibly, the Government of the day has rejected that and instead is taking the approach that first one must walk before one can run.
      • But you have to walk before you can run, and I have had to concentrate on brushing up the forward play.

  • walking encyclopedia

    • informal A person who has an impressive knowledge of facts or words.

      〈非正式〉万宝全书，活词典

      he was a walking encyclopedia of facts on organized crime
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He also said the judge is ‘almost a virtual walking encyclopedia of the law, especially Supreme Court law.’
      • When it comes to nutrition, this man is a walking encyclopedia.
      • The man is a walking encyclopedia, with vast knowledge of history, the classics, politics, and anything else one can possibly think of.
      • Henry's a walking encyclopaedia of Manchester City knowledge.
      • Then you realize that this guy is the walking encyclopedia of his sport.
      • Bitton says the activists do have a role to play in the club - as walking encyclopedias, sources of information for the other side.
      • It's very useful indeed to have friends who are like walking encyclopedias.
      • There are people who are walking encyclopedias, but they make a mess of their lives.
      • Don't act like you've never heard a swear word before, the lot of you are walking dictionaries.
      • He is a walking encyclopedia of names, dates and facts relating to the history of the sport and the Hall of Fame.

  • a walk in the park

    • informal Something that is very easy to accomplish.

      as any director will tell you, doing Shakespeare isn't a walk in the park
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Prostate cancer is not a walk in the park.
      • The audited statements made the financial part of the due diligence process a walk in the park.
      • My life is a walk in the park compared to Ferret's these days.
      • Go on, it'll be a walk in the park.
      • This is a walk in the park compared to a couple of years ago.
      • What happened in Georgia recently was a walk in the park by comparison.
      • Being stuck alone with my father isn't a walk in the park.
      • This period was a walk in the park compared to next.
      • The music rounds in particular were a walk in the park.
      • For a man this talented, innovation should be a walk in the park.
      Synonyms
      easy task, easy job, child's play, nothing, five-finger exercise, gift, walkover, sinecure

  • walk it

    • informal Achieve a victory easily.

      〈非正式〉轻易取胜

      they said I'd walk it, so why didn't they vote for me?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I hope he plays like that in the final because if he does he'll walk it.
      • Neither man wins the accolade of being the greatest, although Higgins would walk it if it were down to an unorthodox lifestyle away from the table.
      • The quiz was all about pop music - so you would have expected the Presley mob to have walked it.
      • To be honest, I went there the highest-ranked player, and I felt that I should just walk it.
      • Even so, if the Wasps had played anywhere near as good as they had done in their previous match, against Villeneuve, they would have walked it.
      • Before I'd listened to it again, I thought this'd walk it.
      • And I probably could have walked it if I hadn't consigned all the really depressing stuff to a dusty corner of the web where you can't see it.
      • I'll be honest with you: I thought the 1980s were going to walk it this year.
      • With the Old Firm having walked it for years, the longer this Hearts run goes on the better.
      • But it wasn't a view shared by the Times or the Telegraph, where Steyn stuck to his earlier predictions that Republicans would walk it with a 315 electoral vote victory.
      Synonyms
      sweep, sail, coast

  • walk someone off their feet

    • Walk with someone until they are exhausted.

      使某人走得精疲力竭

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Aged 70 she holidayed in Oban with son Anthony, walked him off his feet on a 14- mile hike, then completed the trek by doing the splits.
      • At the time I was about seventy-five years and Leon wasn't too far behind me but he walked me off my feet.
      • Dr Graham walked me off my feet round the cathedral and other historic parts of the city.

  • walk of life

    • A person's occupation or position within society.

      the courses attracted people from all walks of life

      这些课程吸引了各界人士。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some are accountants and professionals who have been involved in other walks of life.
      • This will result in the making of better professionals in every walk of life.
      • They are anguished arguments and they take place in all classes and walks of life.
      • That's the way it is in any walk of life, and this arena is no different.
      • In this job you get to know people from many walks of life and professions.
      • They come from all walks of life and are directed by professional artists and production staff.
      • Retained firefighters come from all walks of life and are the lifeblood of the brigade in rural areas.
      • In every walk of life, in every profession for hundreds of years, people have been looking to get an advantage.
      • Queensland's hotline for the elderly fields calls from all walks of life and situations.
      • It says the society welcomes people from all walks of life and backgrounds.
      Synonyms
      class, status, rank, caste, station, sphere, arena, area, domain, realm

  • walk of shame

    • informal An instance of walking back home on the day after an unplanned casual sexual encounter, typically dressed in the same clothes as the previous evening.

      if you're at his and have to make the dreaded walk of shame home, steel yourself
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The rest were pretty much your run-of-the mill one-night stands—you know, stumbling home drunk from a bar, having mediocre drunken sex, and then, of course, the walk of shame in the harsh light of day.
      • This is like doing the walk of shame.
      • It was funny watching him do the walk of shame home the next morning.
      • Following a heavy night on the ale in Chester city centre, two of my housemates were spotted do the 'walk of shame' down Bouverie Street mid-Monday morning.
      • Dave's solitary walk of shame was met by mass indifference as he picked his way amongst rush hour traffic.
      • You can't imagine that these pretty young things might wake up in a stranger's bed or find themselves doing the walk of shame, stilettos in hand, at 9 am as joggers stride past on a Sunday morning.
      • Then comes this morning, and the walk of shame.
      • However, if you're moved to make that no-strings-attached booty call, just be sure he's coming to your place so he has to take the walk of shame back home the next morning.
      • "My first record was about the girl who stays out all night and does the walk of shame the next morning," she says in Interview magazine.
      • Then, on my way home, Dave kissed me and I let things go too far, ending up with me leaving for the walk of shame the next morning.

  • walk on eggshells

    • Be extremely cautious about one's words or actions.

      谨言慎行

      his air of tetchy perfectionism encouraged those around him to walk on eggshells
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Still, getting on with ordinary office routine and procedure, we suspect, was akin to walking on eggshells.
      • All his belongings are still in the flat near to our house and I am going to be walking on eggshells now until it is empty."
      • Thanks for being the voice of reason in this world of walking on eggshells about people's feelings.
      • Staff and pupils spent Friday walking on eggshells, and at one point it was touch and go if the school's spring concert's star attractions would arrive on time to be raffled.
      • "Yeah, but you don't have to walk on eggshells around me.
      • We were constantly walking on eggshells because we were worried about upsetting him in case it would cause a situation.
      • So far, most American media outlets seem to be walking on eggshells to avoid tough coverage of the new pope.
      • Of course, as a guy I'm walking on eggshells simply discussing this.
      • I always felt I was walking on eggshells, avoiding what you didn't want to talk about, or didn't dare talk about.
      • I'm tired of walking on eggshells around people who don't feel the same way as me.

  • walk the streets

    • 1Walk freely in a town or city.

      穿街走巷

      it was not safe to walk the streets at night
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The very best days were those spent walking the streets of your lovely town of Lismore.
      • Time and again, we feel we are there, in the state rooms of senators and princes, or sailing the Mediterranean in a small, swift boat, or walking the streets of the great city itself.
      • Many people are now afraid to walk the streets of their own towns at night, which is an enormous shame.
      • ‘Irish people are scared to walk the streets of the capital city at night for fear of either being assaulted themselves or witnessing an attack,’ said Mr Costello.
      • Some of the men and women walking the streets of our towns, cities and villages are actually not well.
      • It is the first duty of any Government to protect the public and it seems increasingly clear that we no longer know who is walking the streets of our towns and villages.
      • My trusty spies have been at work again recently, spotting the ‘rich’ and ‘famous’ as they walk the streets of this fine city.
      • All people of all races, of all faiths can walk the streets of our cities, towns and villages.
      • With the passing of our Town Hall those days are now but distant memories and far removed from an era when it is no longer safe to walk the streets of our town in early morning.
      • Large numbers of snake charmers once could be seen walking the streets of cities and towns, their cloth-covered baskets hanging from bamboo poles slung across the shoulders.

    • 2Work as a prostitute.

      当妓女

      she walked the streets for a few weeks when she was desperate
      Example sentencesExamples
      • People who object to prostitutes walking the streets near their homes would be pleased as prostitutes would be allowed to advertise in appropriate media and so ‘work from home’.
      • But they have vowed to carry on walking the streets near the town centre because they believe they have no alternative.
      • They say an increasing number of prostitutes are walking the streets bringing violent and drug-related crime with them.
      • He made friends with the prostitutes who walked the streets and even the Narcs, who sold their vials of death on every street corner.
      • Beggars, gamblers, drunkards, and prostitutes walked the streets, looking for money which, one way or the other, they would get.
      • As the prostitute walks the streets and alleys, she incorporates herself into the city through her communion with the crowd.
      • We see 13 and 14-year-olds walking the streets of Manukau selling themselves, because they cannot afford to support themselves.
      • Alongside the strip clubs, peep shows, and massage parlors, a large number of prostitutes walked the streets.
      • If the police crack down on the prostitutes who walk the streets, and the curb-crawlers who provide them their trade, they will be forced off of the streets.
      • I can only take it that this question refers to ‘adult’ prostitutes, the kind we see walking the streets in most towns and cities, or working in saunas and massage parlours.
      Synonyms
      working as a prostitute, involved in prostitution, whoring, prostituting oneself, selling oneself, selling one's body, walking the streets, on the streets, practising the oldest profession, working in the sex industry

  • walk the walk

    • informal Suit one's actions to one's words.

      〈主北美〉言行一致

      it's hard to walk one's talk when it comes to keeping the environment clean
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some really do hold to their word and walk their talk.
      • Why is it important, as we now say, to walk our talk?
      • She is a woman who walks her talk which is often reflected in her writing and art.
      • The people that truly succeed in the fitness industry walk their talk by promoting and leading healthy lives.
      • If you care what others think of you, want to be happier and make others happier, then walk your talk.
      • As I look back, I feel that I was not really walking my talk.
      • My son places a high premium on loyalty to family and friends, and he has been raised to walk his talk.
      • But in this field of new-media communication, you'd better be able to walk your talk.
      • It's the first time I'm really walking my talk as an environmentalist.
      • And I concluded it's better to walk your talk than to talk.

  • walk the wards

    • dated Gain experience as a clinical medical student.

      〈旧〉在医院里实习

      Example sentencesExamples
      • A year's experience in walking the wards was required.
      • We employed two medical students to walk the wards for 28 nights, obtaining independent information about each event requiring a resident doctor or clinical site practitioner between 10 pm and 8am.
      • I had just finished my preclinical training at Cambridge and had come down to London to walk the wards at Bart's.
      • What you want is doctors who will walk the wards.

  • win in a walk

    • Win without effort or competition.

      〈美〉轻易取胜

      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘If it was an open primary Bailey would win in a walk,’ he said.
      • I mean, even if he wins Ohio, if his opponent wins New York and California, which the polls suggest he's going to win in a walk, isn't it game, set, match?
      • If you are wrong, what do you do then, if he doesn't win in a walk, let's say, in November?
      • When forced to choose between Lanie and his son, it's no contest: the son wins in a walk and, while it's a drag to lose Lanie, Pete's pretty stoic about the whole thing.
      • A Republican Congressional candidate in Indiana, Chris Chocola, won in a walk, thus sparing us all ‘Re-Count Chocola’ headlines.
      • The first theory to float up was that fans would be allowed to vote for one driver - an election Junior would win in a walk.
      • Last week I wrote that Johnson would win in a walk.

Phrasal Verbs

  • walk all over

    • 1Treat in an inconsiderate or exploitative manner.

      〈非正式〉轻蔑地对待

      don't let the cops walk all over you

      谁也不想受警察的欺凌。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Minding one's manners is not synonymous with playing doormat and having people walk all over you.
      • If no-one speaks up then she just walks all over guys, which at least means that she treats them equally.
      • For some reason, beyond my comprehension, our Government seems prepared to allow continental operators to walk all over us in this manner and it is quite scandalous.
      • You've been treating me with such kindness and I've walked all over you as though you were mud.
      • All his life people have used, abused and walked all over him.
      • Guys do not want girls who are too nice to them, or girls they can walk all over and get too easily.
      • It showed that the league were weak and let one of their own members ‘walk all over them’ .
      Synonyms
      take advantage of, impose on, exploit, make use of, use, abuse, misuse, manipulate, take liberties with, trifle with, play with
      1. 1.1Defeat easily.
        轻易地击败
        Example sentencesExamples
        • The National League walked all over them.
        • The results reflected the change that has come over Indian morale and training since the grim days of 1962, when the Chinese walked all over them.
        Synonyms
        trounce, beat hollow, defeat utterly, rout, annihilate, triumph over, win a resounding victory over, be victorious over, crush, overwhelm, best, get the better of, worst, bring someone to their knees

  • walk away

    • Casually or irresponsibly withdraw from a situation in which one is involved or for which one is responsible.

      轻易脱身，随便（或不负责任地）离开

      they can walk away from the deal and leave the other person stranded
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Maybe then fewer men and women would walk away from parenting responsibilities.
      • When Jane leaves Archie, what she walks away from isn't men, but literature.
      • If one of those unions walks away, there will be winners and there will be losers.
      • And the players would be free to walk away if the club were to default on their wages on Friday.
      • In the morning she walks away to her new life without a backward look.
      • The two men casually walked away when they saw the witness coming towards them.
      • It is not good enough for these politicians to walk away and ignore the situation.
      • There is a tendency, at present, for some to simply walk away to avoid becoming involved.
      • If somebody's hurling abuse at you, it may be better to just walk away from the situation.
      • Some fear the turnaround will fall apart if Davies walks away.

  • walk away with

    • 1Steal.

      偷走

      a group of corporate cowboys who walked away with millions of dollars

    • 2Win.

      轻易赢得

      teams finishing 4th, 5th, and 6th walked away with gift coupons and certificates

  • walk something back

    • Retract a statement or reverse an action or decision.

      senior members of the administration tried to walk back her comments
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A day later he walked his comments back.
      • And it does appear that he's walking back his statement, trying not to, perhaps, lose friends and favor in Washington at this time.
      • He walked back his comments almost immediately. Who knows where he really stands on the issue?
      • Gingrich has since walked back those comments, insisting he is focused on the economic crisis.
      • Republican leaders have since walked back their support of the measure.
      • I think everybody kind of gets the gist of what she is trying to say, but it is also true that she is walking back several of her statements.
      • And then later the military, the joint chiefs, tried to walk back the nuclear option, which is, of course, crazy.
      • Offered a chance to walk his gaffe back, the poor fellow only digs himself deeper.
      • Representatives of European Union member nations are walking back parts of the 1995 Dayton Agreement that had put an end to the three-and-a-half year war that had torn the country apart.
      • As you know, we're already starting to walk back the emergency measures we took in the crisis.

  • walk for

    • Model the clothes of (a particular designer or fashion house) at a fashion show.

      she's worked with Rankin, shot campaigns for Marc Jacobs, and walked for Chanel and Vivienne Westwood
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Looking elegant in golden fish-tail gown, she walked for Rocky on the penultimate day of the four-day fashion event.
      • We've also seen her walking for Saint Laurent and Chanel.
      • Two different looks: Cara walks for Jason Wu and sports a preppy guise at DKNY.
      • There's at least 6 shows per day at LA Fashion Week and I often see the same models walking for multiple designers.
      • His runway career began when he walked for Givenchy in 2012, and he has previously posed for Swedish underwear label Bjorn Borg.
      • We had 3 models that walked for the amazing designer Kesia Estwick.
      • The model has a lengthy relationship with the fashion house, having walked for Calvin Klein in 1987.
      • Montana has walked for some of the world's most coveted fashion houses.
      • Crystal Renn is walking for everyone!

  • walk in on

    • Come upon (a person or situation) suddenly or unexpectedly.

      he was clearly not expecting her to walk in on him just then

      显然他没有想到就在那个时候她会来打扰他。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • today I left about 45 minutes earlier than I normally would and whilst driving back my mind started to think about what I might walk in on.
      • The 26-year-old mother was stabbed in February at a travel agency in Toronto, Canada when she reportedly walked in on a robbery/murder in progress.
      • The former Scotland scrum-half was so thoroughly underwhelmed by yesterday's performance that any outsider walking in on his post-mortem could have been forgiven for assuming that Kelso had lost.
      • I just hope I covered my feelings up well because I felt awkward walking in on that.
      • I think I'm developing a knack for walking in on situations like this.
      • Suddenly she walked in on his life and he could think of nothing but her.
      • Now his mind filled with relief he walked in on yet another difficult situation which seemed to surround his life although this was a little more serious than he had expected.
      • Shannon snapped his fingers as if remembering the situation he had unexpectedly walked in on.
      • She made a call to police, who walked in on Starr as he entered the kitchen of the 90-year-old woman.

  • walk into

    • Become involved in through ignorance or carelessness.

      〈非正式〉愚昧地（或不慎）陷入

      I had walked into a situation from which there was no escape

      我不慎陷入了一个没有退路的境地。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • They are walking into a favourable demographic situation, and recognize the fact.
      • There was no chance you could walk into the Hibs situation at that time and change it overnight.
      • At first he has everything under control but then the lovely Erica walks into his life.
      • No-one can walk into a situation and make things world class just like that - it takes time.
      • He gets a ticket to scout film locations in Fiji, and walks into Rabuka's coup.

  • walk off with

    • 1Steal.

      偷走

      someone's walked off with my car keys
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Then Fry walks off with Laurie's silver cutlery and returns with a bin liner full of plastic forks and knives which he dumps on the table.
      • Their success in picking the locks of the bank and walking off with the £22 million must have been an ease to them as they contemplated what presents to get for their offspring.
      • The fraudsters then calmly walked off with £40,000 from the pub's safe.
      • In a situation like the Bahamas, huge multi-nationals with headquarters elsewhere are walking off with our monetary resources, while calling it a gain for us.
      • I headed back in the store with Spense and we found out that the woman behind me had picked it up and walked off with it.
      • He walked off with £22.40, but staff at the off-licence took CCTV tapes to the police, who later arrested him.
      • Back at the bar where tales were told and the amber liquid flowed none of the fisherman noticed that two males and a female calmly picked up the 3 black liner bags and walked off with the main fish catch!
      • About a month after he arrives, he walks off with all her jewellery and one of her daughters.
      • I had no problems walking off with it from the ‘secure’ area of the station.
      Synonyms
      steal, thieve, make off with, run off with, carry off, help oneself to, rob, pilfer, purloin, pocket, snatch, take, appropriate, abstract

    • 2Win.

      轻易赢得

      the group walked off with a silver medal

      该小组轻易捧走了一块银牌。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • When these two sides last met at Murrayfield, Ulster walked off with the Celtic Cup and the visitors stole the honours again yesterday despite missing 12 men from their front-line squad through injury and rest.
      • Each syndicate member walks off with around £180,000 as their share of the £8.6 million jackpot.
      • It would be bad business to let Sanders walk off with $8 million for one slightly above-average season.
      • The winning team walked off with a cash award of Rs.5,000, a rolling trophy and Reva scholarships worth Rs.25,000 each.
      • With Kent pressing for second place they ignored five lights on the meter until they felt content with their day's work, Waugh walking off with 17 fours and a six off his 234 balls.
      • Almost a year of dedication paid off for the Iphutheng Primary School team, which walked off with the Carnegie Cup at this year's Story Skirmish.
      • During the awards ceremony, Nedson Siame scooped the Best Male Soloist Award while Namakau Sikoti walked off with the Best Female Soloist title.
      • While judo captivated Japanese fans at the Sydney Summer Olympics, where Japan's athletes walked off with most medals in the sport, it has been on the decline at home.
      • The host team also walked off with the fourth-place finish after falling to the Kelowna Owls via a golden goal.
      • In the end, Phelps walked off with six golds and two bronzes, hardly a failure.
      • Vaughan had received 180 balls and stroked a dozen fours and when the innings was wrapped up Caddick walked off with five for 81.
      • But Laura, 18, walked off with all 20 prizes after being randomly selected to take part in a quiz section of the programme.
      Synonyms
      win easily, win hands down, achieve, attain, earn, gain, receive, obtain, acquire, secure, collect, pick up, come away with, net

  • walk something off

    • Take a walk in order to undo the effects of a heavy meal.

      以散步的方式消除（因吃得过多而产生的不良反应）

      people wishing to walk off the excesses of the festive season
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The next restaurant was a twenty minute walk down the road - I attempted to walk my meal off, but felt somewhat sick upon my arrival after all the moving around.
      • We walked the pizza off across the Brooklyn Bridge back to Manhattan and took a quick shufty round before heading back to the hotel.
      • I'm not going to lie to you: this isn't the world's healthiest recipe. But you can walk it off so indulge!
      • We went to Covent Garden to try to walk the sickness off.
      • Still, it was filling, and like last time we left the table feeling stuffed, happy to walk it off.
      • After all that, walk it off with a stroll through the quaint old Tivoli gardens, one of Europe's original amusement parks.
      • And don't worry about being too full after a night on the town; there's bound to be a hill on the way home where you can walk it off.

  • walk out

    • 1Depart or leave suddenly or angrily.

      突然（或愤然）离去

      he had walked out in a temper
      he walked out after finding the pressure of the job too much
      Example sentencesExamples
      • All of a sudden three people walk out of the screening, and this guy is pulling out his hair.
      • That she gave up and walked out on 15,000 spectators, who had paid £67 a ticket earned her few friends.
      • With that remark, he got to his feet and walked out, practically pushing Ash out of his way as he passed him.
      • Mrs. Trunk attended the Harvard graduation ceremonies and walked out on Annan's speech.
      • Deuba said the rebels had suddenly walked out of peace talks and chose to perpetrate violence of unprecedented scale in the country.
      • She looked angrily at Ellimaria and walked out of the dining hall, slamming the oversized doors behind her.
      • It ended without the governor of Minnesota in attendance, because he walked out on the shameful display.
      • Delegates walked out on the minister last year after he told them they had to cut the annual €60m overtime bill.
      • He had been falsely accused of stopping the publication of a leaflet and angrily walked out of a party meeting and broke with the party.
      • I've never actually walked out on a film at the theatre, on the theory that perhaps there's something in the last five minutes that somehow redeems the rest of the mess.
      Synonyms
      leave suddenly, make a sudden departure, get up and go, storm off, storm out, flounce out, push off, depart, leave, get out, absent oneself, take wing
      1. 1.1Go on strike.
        罢工
        teachers are ready to walk out in a protest over class sizes
        Example sentencesExamples
        • Workers on the Sterling Heights picket line said they walked out over pension and health-care issues.
        • Up to two million workers walked out in the biggest strike France has seen since the mass public sector strikes of December 1995.
        • But when casuals were used in Harrow to sort blacked mail, staff walked out and joined the strike.
        • Relations with management are so bad that as well as the official strikes, 25 porters walked out unofficially recently.
        • His 80 colleagues walked out in a spontaneous strike.
        • Then they and other trade unionists walked out for a day.
        • The company's 600 guards are due to walk out on strike again on Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2.
        • Newham has more CCTV cameras than any other authority, but they were useless when the workers monitoring them kicked off the strike by walking out on the stroke of midnight.
        • If academics vote to strike they could walk out next month or in March.
        • Lecturers at Brooksby Melton College in Leicestershire walked out in a one-day strike over pay this week.
        Synonyms
        go on strike, call a strike, strike, withdraw one's labour, stop work, take industrial action
      2. 1.2Abandon someone or something towards which one has responsibilities.
        抛弃（某人或对其负有责任的某事物）
        he walked out on his wife

        他抛弃了自己的妻子。

        Example sentencesExamples
        • We're meant to feel sympathy for a man who walked out on his kid some 14 years earlier, who once even beat his wife after a vicious yelling match escalated.
        • Even the most hostile versions of his family story can't obscure the fact that he walked out on five children who struggled to survive without him.
        • A man who suffered at the hands of a brutal father, walked out on his wife and children while playing in France and then started a fresh life with his lover who had just given birth to his daughter.
        • How they wish she could be back with them, how they hope for a miracle, but not for the return of Avril's husband, who walked out on the family for another woman.
        • After having two more children, Mary walked out on her husband in 1981.
        • The third friend is a policeman, whose wife has just walked out on him.
        • When he walked out on the family, abandoning a wife gravely ill with cancer, he said he had found ‘a greater cause, to serve God’.
        • When Yates walked out on him after 18 years, he was devastated.
        • Not there yesterday to greet her was her father, who walked out on the family when Marion was four and subsequently spurned all his daughter's attempts to meet him.
        • Ghanaians are still stunned that their national coach, Mariano Barreto, walked out on the job to become the Maritimo boss - without telling them.
        Synonyms
        desert, abandon, leave, leave in the lurch, betray, run away from, throw over, jilt, run out on, rat on

    • 2Go for walks in courtship.

      〈英，非正式，旧〉（求爱时）散步

      you were walking out with Tom

      你在散步时跟汤姆谈恋爱。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • That's what the headlines said when the golfer started walking out with the beautiful Spanish model Ines Sastre.
      • The next you know, Grazia's teenage daughter is walking out with the policeman and Grazia is driving around with three children on the scooter.
      • But you aren't walking out with him or anybody else, understand?
      • Sir Charles Bunbury called on her, and insisted on walking out with her, and became rather particular, but our heroine was inflexible.

  • walk over

    • 1Treat in an inconsiderate or exploitative manner.

      〈非正式〉轻蔑地对待

      people always walked over him and didn't treat him with respect
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She has money problems to rival the national debt, more people walking over her than a 'Welcome' mat and the requisite ex-boyfriend from hell.
      • He let Powell walk over him too much.
      • To others he is nothing short of a ruthless builder of wealth and prestige with little concern for those whom he walks over to get what he wants.
      • I'm not going to say you're so feeble that you let the tabloid press walk over you.
      1. 1.1Defeat easily.
        轻易地击败
        a slippery, trickier competitor could walk over them

    • 2Horse racing
      Traverse (a racecourse) without needing to hurry, because one has no opponents or only inferior ones.

      （因为没有对手或没有强劲对手而）从容不迫地越过（跑道）

      Example sentencesExamples
      • If a horse has no competitor, it can win by just "walking over" to the finish line.
      • Our horse just needed to "walk over" the course to collect the purse.

  • walk up!

    • Used by a showman as an invitation to enter a circus or other show.

      〈英〉请进！（马戏团等表演用语）

      walk up and have a look

      进来看看。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Walk up! Walk up! Walk up and see the horse's head where his tail ought to be.
      • Walk up and see the most surprising performance in the whole fair, by the three brothers, from the Caribbean Islands of which I am a native myself.
      • Meet outside The Royal Parks Office on the Inner Circle of Regents Park and walk up to see The Smallest Cinema in the World.

Origin

Old English wealcan 'roll, toss', also 'wander', of Germanic origin. The sense 'move about', and specifically 'go about on foot', arose in Middle English.

  • An Old English word that originally meant ‘to roll, toss’ and ‘to wander’, and did not start to mean ‘walk’ until about 1300. The odd expression walk of life, meaning ‘a person's occupation or position within society’, probably derives from the use of walk to refer to the round or circuit of a travelling tradesman or official. In Australian English a walkabout is a journey into the bush that an Aboriginal makes to re-establish contact with traditions and spiritual sources—to go walkabout is to go on such a journey. Since around 1970 the term has also been used of the informal strolls among welcoming crowds favoured by members of the royal family and visiting dignitaries. It can also mean ‘to go missing, disappear’, especially in the context of small objects such as pens, car keys, and television remote controls. The Sony Walkman, a type of personal stereo using cassette tapes, was trademarked in 1981 became a generic term for ‘personal stereo’. See also blood

Rhymes

auk, baulk, Bork, caulk (US calk), chalk, cork, Dundalk, Falk, fork, gawk, hawk, Hawke, nork, orc, outwalk, pork, squawk, stalk, stork, talk, torc, torque, york
verb.1
phr.
phr.v.

Definition of walk in US English:

walk

verbwôkwɔk

  • 1no object, usually with adverbial Move at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, never having both feet off the ground at once.

    走，步行

    I walked across the lawn

    我走过草坪。

    she turned and walked a few paces

    她转过身，走了几步。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I got really excited and I started to walk at a faster pace to catch up with the procession.
    • Every time I lifted my foot to walk, my other foot stuck to the ground and caused me to fall forward.
    • Jude tied his three gourds to his belt, then walked with a measured pace downstream.
    • I can even walk more than ten paces in three inch heels now, too!
    • Adaela flashed James a venomous smile and began walking at a faster pace.
    • That's perfect for me because I can walk at a good pace and he can drive like a madman.
    • While other students were hurrying to get to class, Rocky was walking at a semi-leisurely pace.
    • I continued to walk, my pace quickening once I was in a somewhat safer place.
    • She walked at her normal pace ignoring those behind her wanting to go faster.
    • With that I sneered and walked off, my pace quick with the heat of getting myself angry again.
    • We carried on walking at a steady pace, turned another corner and stopped at a pale green door.
    • She walked at a comfortable pace until she was about two yards away from Jen.
    • Lauren looked around, but saw nothing, and kept going, walking at a faster pace.
    • He saw how a fragment of leg bone fitted into the foot bones, and knew those feet were made for walking on the ground, not moving in trees.
    • As there are never any gaps in the traffic, you simply have to step out into the road and keep walking at a steady pace.
    • It looked up at me and meowed again, and when I started walking, it kept pace with me.
    • I took a quick step back before walking forward, lifting my leg, and kicking the door open.
    • Holmes though was not in the mood for praise and walked at a pace that I struggled to maintain.
    • I was almost too scared to leave the flat, and when I did I walked with the pace of a 90 year old.
    • Eve's footsteps were echoing off the dank walls as she walked forward a few paces.
    Synonyms
    stroll, saunter, amble, wend one's way, trudge, plod, hike, tramp, trek, march, stride, troop, patrol, step out, wander, ramble, tread, prowl, footslog, promenade, roam, traipse
    go by foot, go on foot, travel on foot, foot it, be a pedestrian
    1. 1.1 Go on foot for recreation and exercise.
      散步；漫步
      you can walk in 21,000 acres of mountain and moorland

      你可以在21，000英亩的山地和高沼地里漫步。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Check with your doctor for permission to do light exercise, such as walking.
      • He lists his recreations as walking, cruising, theatre, painting and travel.
      • Doctors now advocate light physical exercises such as walking and sometimes, even swimming.
      • Patients must be initiated into simple exercises such as walking.
      • Exercise may include walking, gardening, dancing, or use of a stationary bicycle.
      • Light exercises such as walking, hiking and swimming are beneficial.
      • You may need to avoid strenuous exercise for up to a month, but walking and gentle exercises are encouraged.
      • Even moderate exercise, like walking, can help you get a better night's sleep.
      • Aerobic exercises such as walking, swimming, and biking are also beneficial.
      • His day is spent managing his pain, doing his exercises and walking.
      • The other most important aspect is exercise, walking, aerobics, dancing, skipping, whatever takes your fancy.
      • His workshop is an introduction to a healthy lifestyle of fun, walking and exercise and lasts for ninety minutes.
      • The aim is to encourage people who never do any exercise to walk for half an hour a day, five days a week, and to educate people about the benefits of walking.
      • Saying that, I have been swimming like a fish, walking and doing my exercises every second day, which isn't bad at all.
      • Even moderate exercise, such as walking, has real health benefits if you do it regularly all year round.
      • The only exercise I get is walking up and down the beach and, of course, surfing.
      • If you are busy doing lots of work, I suggest you exercise. Take time to walk or climb.
      • Exercise daily by walking and/or swimming until it no longer feels comfortable.
      • After he had his stroke, the doctor suggested he should do some exercise, walking or even a bit of gentle cycling.
      • Obviously, caution should be exercised when walking on tinder dry moorlands.
    2. 1.2with object Travel along or over (a route or area) on foot.
      沿（某线路）步行，行走，走过（某地区）
      the police department has encouraged officers to walk the beat

      警察局鼓励警官沿划定路线步行巡逻。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We are reasonably experienced walkers, acceptably fit and have walked the route several times before.
      • Orangemen said it was their right to walk their only route home.
      • Then as we walk a route it will be coloured to show where we have been.
      • Residents of the parish would walk the route, carrying willow wands to beat special stones at set points around the parish boundary.
      • We were also told that they would be joined by a couple of students that were walking the route.
      • Audiences access these soundscapes with headphones as they walk a predetermined route through the city.
      • The 21 women range from ten years old to over 60 and some will be walking the three-mile route.
      • But what about his friends, he wanted to know, who walk the same route?
      • During the course of the run they also made some friends, in a group of Spanish pilgrims who were walking the same route.
      • The group have walked the route and informed Bradford Council of potential problems and repairs that need to be made to the footpath.
      • Officials from County Hall were then sent to walk the route for themselves to see whether they believed it was safe.
      • One of our managers has also visited the area and walked the ground to assess all aspects of accessibility.
      • When you walk this route as I do, you see what you miss when you fly past in a car.
      • Instead of walking the same dull route, let your curiosity be your guide.
      • Having walked the area one Sunday morning recently, he said that the bins were full to capacity.
      • In part, because of that, I believe that officers walking the foot beat is a good thing.
      • Mrs O'Callaghan added that he had walked the route on several occasions before.
      • I recently attended a meeting in Central Park where a considerable number of us walked the route of the proposed road.
      • But perhaps the biggest change was in the number of pilgrims walking the yatra route.
      • We decided to walk a route we may do on Sunday with our walking group.
    3. 1.3 Used to suggest that someone has achieved a state or position easily or undeservedly.
      轻易地（或不当地）获得地位（或职位）
      no one has the right to walk straight into a well-paid job for life

      谁也没有权利轻易地直接获得一份终身的高薪职业。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • After studying computer service technology at college, he walked straight into a job as an electronics engineer.
      • She walked straight into a business analyst position with a major consulting firm after graduating in economics and government.
    4. 1.4 Use movements similar to walking but with a different part of one's body or a support.
      （不用脚）行走
      he could walk on his hands carrying a plate on one foot

      他可以用一只脚顶着碟子，双手撑地行走。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Marie also remembers him learning to ride a bike, them both walking on stilts and playing at the beach.
      • During the past week campers learnt the art of African and tassa drumming, how to walk on stilts and how to put together an atlas.
      • Clara is like an angel when she walks on stilts, beating her drum.
      • Dougie is not a musician but he can be seen walking on stilts at street carnivals and festivals as he is a professional clown.
      • The focal point of the creation was a 10 ft tall figure which he carried and operated, while walking on stilts.
      • Juggling, walking on stilts and even dressing up as clowns were some of the activities on offer.
    5. 1.5 (of a quadruped) proceed with the slowest gait, always having at least two feet on the ground at once.
      （四足动物）慢步走
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Your horse stays by your side always and that includes walking next to you into a trailer.
      • She turned around again, and stroked her stallion's mane as he walked beside her.
      • Now they would have to wait for some hours before the horses were able to walk again.
      • You apply the aids for a left lead canter and the horse just keeps walking along as though nothing changed at all.
      • In pre-railway racing, horses had to walk from one race to another, which sometimes took weeks.
      • Here, Ramirez reined in his horse and they walked forward at a sedate trot.
      • This distinguishes walking from faster gaits in which ground contact is absent for brief periods.
    6. 1.6with object Ride (a horse) at its slowest gait.
      骑（马）慢步走
      he walked his horse toward her

      他骑着马，向她慢步走过去。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • In my childhood we lived near Berkhamsted and I walked and rode my pony in the woods at Ashridge.
      • Just keep walking the horse up to the last point behind the trailer where it is still comfortable and stay there.
      • They walked their horses back to the stables and then handed them off to the stable boys.
      • He began to walk his horse towards me, pushing me into line with the other men.
      • Each assistant walks the horses thru every step of the pattern, never letting the horse make even the slightest errors.
      • Diana shook her head and walked her horse towards what was left of the village.
      • You can walk your stallion right past a mare and have him pay no attention if you don't want him to.

  • 2Guide, accompany, or escort (someone) on foot.

    给…领路；陪同…走路；步行护送

    he walked her home to her door

    他把她送到家门口。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The lights were on, so my parents were still up, and Ryan walked me to the front door.
    • To encourage more parents to walk their children to school Croydon Council is promoting a national campaign.
    • The county council is urging all parents to start walking their children to school, even if it is just for the last half a mile to the school gate itself.
    • Both the young artists were busy today walking visitors through their paintings and clarifying an occasional point or two.
    • When we finish talking, Johns walks me down to the studio, where he is working on a series of etchings based on works he made in 2003.
    • Then you wait for an escort to walk you the remaining 40 yards to the main building.
    • I just let my feet walk me towards home in the pattern of streets I'd already started to memorize.
    • Pretty soon he was escorting me to my classes and walking me home from school.
    • One woman, who did not want to be named, said that the bikers even sped past when parents were walking their children home from school.
    • This he accomplished on foot, walking the stock down the road through the villages and into the City.
    • A group of mums are using a secret weapon to encourage parents to walk their children to school - pester power.
    • Many parents walk their children to and from school but lots of others live outside the village and need to drive in.
    • Mrs Watson gets to her feet and walks us back to our homeroom, which is empty because everyone has gone to class.
    • Alex Maxwell, Airdrie-born but now an accomplished local historian, walks me round the town.
    • As the attendant walked her to her seat, she was forcefully aware of all eyes on her.
    • A young woman walks her sons home; sons fathered by different men.
    • A digital audio player walks tourists through exhibit spaces such as Alcatraz, the Empire State Building, and the Tower of London.
    • Holly gave Ford a hand getting to his feet, then walked him over to the elevator.
    • She said there had been claims the mothers and fathers who walked their children up the road to school were bad parents.
    • Parents are asked to walk their children to school or use the vehicular access to the junior school.
    Synonyms
    accompany, escort, guide, show, see, convoy, conduct, usher, marshal, lead, take, attend, chaperone, steer, herd, shepherd
    1. 2.1 Take (a domestic animal, typically a dog) out for exercise.
      遛（家畜，尤指狗）
      a man walking his retriever

      她发现一个男子在遛他那只拾獚。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The court heard Wallington and the victim had spoken on about six occasions over a two week period when she was walking her family's dogs last July.
      • But now it's a pleasant place, great for walking my dog or sitting on a bench listening to the breeze rustle the overhanging trees.
      • Kathleen chats, reads stories, and offers support such as walking dogs and gardening.
      • Taking a walk for exercise, or to walk a dog for that matter, is thus no longer a pleasurable activity.
      • The discovery was made by a man walking his dog shortly before 10 am yesterday.
      • Often the fact is that we have plenty of time for walking the dog in our neighbourhoods but we seldom spend the time to take a walk to be with our parents.
      • My family has been walking dogs there for 10 years, on and off, because it is the perfect place for that activity.
      • Out of sight there is a long, straight waterway along which he walks his dogs most days, and I was knocked off my feet with the list of birds and wildlife he's seen there.
      • A man walking his dog discovered her body the next morning.
      • However, a passing man walking his dogs offered to help us.
      • I have enjoyed riding horses and also walking my dogs on Baildon Moor for the past 40 years.
      • Early the next morning a woman walking her dog near St Mark's church in Woodhouse, Leeds, saw a man slumped against the churchyard gate.
      • The co-ordinator will link the helpers with those in need of small favours such as taking their children to school or walking their dog.
      • Recently, my friend with a lovely new puppy dog showed me a great place to walk the dog.
      • It turns out that a year's worth of running for the bus, walking the dog or doing a weekly shopping burns more than 100,000 calories.
      • They are places to stroll in pleasant weather, walk dogs and ride horses.
      • He walks his dog Jenny, an 11-year-old mongrel, past the river every day and saw the Environment Agency experts inspecting the dead fish.
      • ‘I will tell you only what I have told the police,’ said an old man who was walking his dog.
      • ON Sunday, April 4 I was walking my dog George along the canal when she collapsed and couldn't walk.
      • At about 11 pm on January 24, Mr Shepherd was walking his dog when he passed the youth arguing heatedly with a girl.

  • 3North American informal Abandon or suddenly withdraw from a job, commitment, or situation.

    〈北美，非正式〉放弃；突然退出

    he was in place as the male lead but walked at the eleventh hour
    we were expecting the merger with Bell to go through—we didn't expect Bell to walk on the deal
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Should I just walk away from the deal?
    • The country was likely to walk away from the deal.
    • When we arrived over 100 New Orleans P.D. officers had already walked off the job.
    1. 3.1 Be released from suspicion or from a charge.
      〈北美，非正式〉解脱嫌疑，免受控告
      had any of the others come clean during the trial, he might have walked

      如果当时审讯中，其他人中有一个人说出真相，他就可能没事了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Maybe if he hadn't been so foolish by buying books on forensic investigation or in the way he dealt with his car, he might have walked. But he didn't and clearly the jury thought he was guilty.
      • $500.00 bail (that means $50.00) and he walked!

  • 4Baseball
    Be awarded first base after not swinging at four balls pitched outside the strike zone.

    〔棒球〕自由上垒

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Never one to draw many base on balls, Rich is walking at the lowest rate of his career.
    1. 4.1with object Allow or enable (a batter) to walk.
      〔棒球〕使（击球员）自由上垒
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Jason Michaels flew out and Jimmy Rollins was intentionally walked to load the bases.
      • Chambers walked eight batters and struck out four in a game that took two hours and one minute to play.
      • Vaughn walked Heinie Groh twice, but he was erased both times with a double play.
      • A sacrifice bunt moved Reid to second, and then two more Warriors were walked to load the bases.
      • After walking Millar, Gordon yielded to Mo, who had a rockier outing than usual.
      • Things got a bit tense when Gagne walked J.T. Snow on four pitches as well to load the bases.
      • After walking Stanley, Barber was replaced by Miller who got Don Weft to hit a grounder up the middle.
    2. 4.2 (of a pitcher) give a walk with the bases loaded so as to force in (a run).
    3. 4.3Basketball
      another term for travel (sense 3 of the verb)

  • 5(of a ghost) be present and visible.

    （鬼魂）出现，出来

    the ghosts of Bannockburn walked abroad

    班诺克本的鬼魂四处游荡。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Maybe it's because of who my mother was, or maybe it's because of that ghost I've seen walking.
    • Again, a fear of ghosts walking may be the best explanation for burials that appear ‘respectful’ in all other ways.
    • Oral Lee Brown proves that there are angels on earth - walking and living among us.
    • Can you think of a better foundation to a little child's value system than that age-old nemesis of evil - The Man who cannot die and The Ghost who walks.
    • Sixth Avenue also had its parade of refugees, some of them covered head to foot with white dust, strange walking ghosts among the living.
    • Would she lead me to some isolated lair in the wilderness that was filled with walking zombies?

  • 6archaic Used to describe the way in which someone lives or behaves.

    〈古〉生活；处事

    walk humbly with your God

    和你的上帝一起谦恭地生活。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • May your purposes always come to pass and may I always hear your voice so that I can humbly walk in the ways you lay before me.
    • He was walking around behaving as close to the Scott she actually knew as he ever let outsiders get.
    • I was one with a creation of my own making that I was now living and walking in.
    • This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
    • Having decided to remain here, it makes no sense that I walk around and live in total fear of what could happen to me.
    • I was not helped that I had been given an airport taxi driver who was a walking, living embodiment of the Pareto Principle.
    • I do believe that our paths will cross again, Maria, and we shall walk humbly with our Savior.
    • We walk humbly before God, not claiming divine assurances as our own prerogative.
    • Whether we like him or not, the man was born of flesh and blood, and he lived and he walked among us.
    • You live and walk together, but you may go separate ways - maintaining independence - in your cars.
nounwôkwɔk

  • 1An act of traveling or an excursion on foot.

    走，步行，行走；散步

    he was too restless to sleep, so he went out for a walk

    他心绪不定，难以入睡，所以出去散步。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This group had enjoyed the walk and we shared that weary satisfaction of knowing our bodies had stood up to a good test.
    • All are welcome to come along and enjoy a walk with good company.
    • We like to go for long walks, enjoy wonderful meals and do jigsaw puzzles while listening to the radio and looking at the sea.
    • You may enjoy your walk more if you take your baby along in a baby carrier.
    • As well as the flowers, visitors can also enjoy guided walks, evening concerts, plays and themed festivals.
    • The emphasis on the day will be to enjoy a walk with family and friends for your heart's sake.
    • There are not going to be many nice days now and I should take the opportunity to enjoy the walks.
    • Ramblers of different levels meet every weekend to enjoy walks around the region including the Dales and the North Yorkshire Moors.
    • Although there was a small enough turn out the walk was thoroughly enjoyed by all participants.
    • This is a small price to pay for enjoying an invigorating walk along Addingham Moorside or up Beamsley Beacon.
    • The walk was greatly enjoyed and was a successful fundraiser for the school.
    • A fine crowd enjoyed a lovely walk and the event raised substantial sponsorship for the newly launched project.
    • He enjoys long walks, romantic dinners, and rescuing hostages.
    • I suppose that was fair enough and quite honestly I enjoyed the walk.
    • She also said they enjoyed walks in the country and that the doctor bombarded her with text messages at one point.
    • Cubbon Park, Lalbagh, and other local parks are the favourites of many Bangaloreans, where they enjoy brisk walks and jogs.
    • Seriously, my family have been wonderfully supportive and I hope we'll have time to enjoy a nice walk together.
    • Boaters who attend will receive a brass plaque and everyone can enjoy organised walks along the old section of the canal, a display by morris men, a brass band and an exhibition.
    • Edward thoroughly enjoyed his walk in the country yesterday.
    • Back in April, my first walk in the foot and mouth outbreak was at Dalby Forest.
    Synonyms
    stroll, saunter, amble, promenade
    1. 1.1in singular Used to indicate the time that it will take someone to reach a place on foot or the distance that they must travel.
      行走时间；行走路程（或距离）
      the library is within five minutes' walk

      图书馆离这里有约不到5分钟的行程。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • If you're feeling fit, there's a two-hour walk down from the clifftop path to the village of Yallingup.
      • A half-hour walk along the rough track on the right of the lochan takes you to the base of the buttress.
      • A short distance walk on the street will be good enough for the old and the poor.
      • This seems a little strange since she was staying in The Savoy hotel, a mere five minute walk from the venue.
      • It is deliberately hard to find, and reportedly involves an eight-mile walk from the nearest road.
      • What should have been a five minute walk took me half an hour.
      • For some reason, the distance was supposedly a hike, when it was a short walk, maybe five minutes.
      • A five minute walk across from the International terminal takes us to the circular base of this LA landmark.
      • It was only a five or six minute walk to his own address, but for an unknown reason he decided to take the short cut.
      • After a walk of 20 minutes to the bus stop, Weili and I were overwhelmed by the sheer number of people there.
      • After our houses there is a forest that you can go through; it is only a mile walk before you reach the clubhouse.
      • From there, it was a five minute walk back to the station to catch the train back to York.
      • This caused a bit of a commotion as the hospital grounds are quite large and it was a five minute walk to reach the main entrance.
      • Five vehicles almost hit me in the five minute walk from the bakery to work this morning.
      • Take a five minute walk in any part of the city, and in any direction, and you will see a patrolling uniformed presence.
      • The property is only a five minute walk from the local primary school.
      • The passageway was very long, and it was quite a walk before they would reach their destination.
      • Leaving my flat, tuna-nourished, I looked over both shoulders as I took the five minute walk.
      • One's a five minute walk from the Jubilee platform and the other's four, which is pretty poor for such an important transport hub.
      • That walk was only twenty five minutes, although much of it was into the biting East Wind.

  • 2A route recommended or marked out for recreational walking.

    （消遣性）散步（或步行）路线

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The area includes two recognised Sli Slainte routes and, crucially, most of the walks are off the main road.
    • Every now and then by accident I meet people who do my walks, and out on the bike the other day I bumped into a couple who recommended walks Wetherby way.
    • For those who prefer gentler exercise there are networks of low level walks to be enjoyed.
    • Dovestone Reservoir is also the start and finish point of a 40 mile walk route known as the Oldham Way.
    • She then described the route of the walk to a crowd of about 60 and unveiled the map on the signpost.
    • The route for this walk will take in the areas of Knockbarran with its wonderful vistas, and scenery.
    • Following a scenic route the walk is well worth the effort to see this beautiful part of the Slieve Blooms.
    • Their farm lies on two of the routes of a series of walks around Dallowgill organised by the Rotary Club of Ripon.
    • The day was fine so to become oriented the group was directed to a walk in the reserve.
    • As is traditional the route for the walk was from Strand Village to Monagea community centre.
    • Howth has a number of restaurants as well as golf courses and scenic walks.
    • One of Sligo's many beautiful walks starts beside Sligo Airport round by its boundary over to the little church at Killaspugbrone.
    • At the back are many black and white pictures of bygone times in Holgate and Acomb, as well as maps showing the route of each walk.
    • Note that sections of the walk route can be slippery when wet.
    • Here one can enjoy walks such as the Everglade, the Apiary Walk and the Via Davidia, and there is also a large collection of specimen trees.
    • Take part in one of the most breathtaking walks in the region on a nine mile stroll across Morecambe Bay.
    • There are way-marked walks with interpretation panels.
    • The idea of a signposted walk for visitors to enjoy sights in and around Bingley was envisaged more than ten years ago by one of the town's historians.
    • He said the route - outlined in a previously published circular walks leaflet - was around eight miles and could start and finish at Greenberfield Locks.
    • The visitor centre was shut, but all we needed was the information board recommending a range of walks.
    Synonyms
    route, beat, round, run, circuit
    1. 2.1 A sidewalk or path.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Linger by canal sides, roam the riverside walks; explore the undersides of old iron bridges, the shadows thrown by motorway flyovers.
      • On Monday the town council planning committee raised no objection to the new parking area but called for a riverside walk to be provided.
      • But the contractor has started clearing the site so that the riverside walk can be open over the festive period.
      • Paramedics were called to the riverside walk following the incident at about 11 pm.
      • The remainder of the land will be transformed into an extension for Biss Meadow Country Park and a riverside walk.
      • Improvements to the riverside walk and cycle path will also be made.
      • Land on the east side is being earmarked for walks and nature trails.
      • They had talked about a riverside walk as a Millennium project and it would be a great boost to the town.
      • He has them laid out on the asphalt walk where the pedestrian tunnel goes under the platforms.
      • When they reached the front walk of the Nelson house at the top of the hill, Caitlin turned and faced him.
      • The Belleek Forest Park with its attractive riverside walks is well on the way to being a major addition to Ballina's tourist attractions as a natural amenity.
      • The riverside walk is a beautiful amenity off the Dunmore Road that requires some remedial work.
      • The new place name signs and the canal walk and nature trail also came in for praise.
      • Plans for a riverside walk in Tewkesbury have been given a year to make progress or the money will be spent elsewhere.
      • There were some modifications to the design of the riverside walk.
      • I got upstairs to my apartment, glanced out the window at the sidewalk, and the walk was being shovelled.
      • Members of the public are welcome to view the exercise, which can best be seen from the riverside walk.
      • Good places to try include the Museum Gardens, Rowntree Park or the riverside walk near the Millennium Bridge.
      • New Walk has been further degraded by the removal of wide channels of soil between the tow path and the walk.
      • In the meantime, Spencer's workmen have been cracking on with their other task of refurbishing the riverside walks.
      • The West Country is the part of Britain most visited by walkers and nature lovers, but until now they have had to make do with a patchy network of footpaths and coastal walks.
      Synonyms
      pathway, path, footpath, track, lane, alley, alleyway, walkway, promenade, footway, pavement, trail, trackway, ride, towpath
    2. 2.2British The round followed by a mail carrier.
      〈主英〉（邮递员的）投递路线
      the first job is to sort the mail into routes or walks
      Example sentencesExamples
      • New walks often resulted from a "revision" - a reorganisation of routes following, for example, the building of a significant number of new houses in an area.
      • Before going on his 'walk', he would sort the mail delivered by horse and cart from Leominster into a pile for each postman and sub-office.

  • 3in singular An unhurried rate of movement on foot.

    悠闲的步速

    they crossed the field at a leisurely walk

    他们悠闲地缓步穿过原野。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Alicia continues on at a brisk pace-leaving Johnny behind at a slow walk, cursing himself.
    • Merissa slowed into a walk as she neared the older woman, coming to a gasping, wheezing stop in front of her.
    • He slowed to a walk along the outskirts of the wood when something caught his eye.
    • I slowed to a walk when I got into the hall, so as not to wake anyone whose room I passed.
    • Exhausted, he slowed to a walk, hastily knocking tree limbs out of his way and gasping for air.
    • Krane slowed to a walk and examined the injured man before picking up the sword and giving chase to the other.
    • She whispered, her body shivering violently as she slowed to a walk as she neared the fountain.
    • She slowed to a walk, and then stopped, turning around to look down the street.
    • My running slowed to an unsteady walk until I found a wooden bench to sit on.
    • He reached the construction site and he stopped his jog, slowing to a casual walk.
    • I lowered my pack to the floor and gave her a weary smile as she slowed down to a walk, staring as she approached.
    • She looked up to the sky and felt her pace slow to a lethargic walk.
    • In your head you're running but you're probably doing a slow walk.
    • Pete, using a great amount of discretion, slowed down to a walk and let Gil meet Laurie alone.
    • As I approached some old oak trees, I slowed to a walk, then stopped entirely.
    • A slow walk across the street had us traipsing across the grass surrounding the court house.
    • As I ran past one of the gardens I slowed my pace, stumbling into a slow walk.
    • He slowed to a walk now, not worrying anymore, and he took a look around at the slight splendor of this.
    • We started jogging and got to the top of the street we're on and slowed to a walk.
    • She slowed to a walk and slowly approached her friend, seating herself next to Mary.
    1. 3.1 The slowest gait of an animal.
      （动物的）最慢步态
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He flicked the reins and Alberta began to move, first at a slow walk, then at a spirited canter.
      • We rode to the edge of the clearing to a road, and for nearly an hour went at a slow walk.
      • They rode down to the barn at a slow walk not saying a word to each other.
      • Ace quickly slowed to a walk and turned around, picking up the trot again and she clicked a few times.
      • Sarge came charging up the path and when he saw us, slowed to an easy walk.
      • I could feel the mare tiring and slowed her into a walk; it would get us nowhere if we killed the horses.
      • I love their cries, their shape, their colour, their walk, their flight.
      • The horse is taken through a series of tests, such as the pirouette, piaffe and passage, in a walk, trot and canter.
      • We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.
      • Lucian cantered into a walk and Jared dismounted to let the horse rest and drink from the stream.
      • In walk, trot and canter, movements such as riding in circles and changing the rein are performed.
      • The herd had also slowed to a walk, but continued to move away from the bear.
      • The sun had been up for just a few hours when Kayin slowed Star to a walk.
      • There was a walk and run race, a walk, trot and canter race and an event called musical mats.
      • Suddenly, Lori slowed to a fast walk, then to a trot, and finally stopped all together.
      • They cantered, unhindered, to the edge of the forest, where they slowed to a walk.
    2. 3.2 A person's manner of walking.
      步态
      the spring was back in his walk

      他又恢复了轻盈的步履。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Billy began to adapt his walk to the beat of the music and his lips formed the words in silence.
      • We settled into a brisk walk as we exited through the front doors and entered the parking lot.
      • His walk was slow and methodical as he listened to the spattering of the rain.
      • However it was her companion who caught his eye, with her slow and cautious manner, and easy walk.
      • Her walk slows, and I know she's planning on giving him all the coins in her pockets and wallet.
      • After several years sufferers may develop a shuffling walk without arm movement.
      • He led a totally dysfunctional life and you see it in his famous perp walk.
      • It wasn't like it was incredibly dangerous, but just in case, she slowed to a fast walk.
      • It definitely had looked like him, and the walk and the manner had seemed all but the same.
      Synonyms
      gait, manner of walking, pace, step, stride, tread, carriage, bearing

  • 4British A part of a forest under one keeper.

    （护林人的）管辖林区

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Helen hitches a ride to Ashley Walk with New Forest Verderer Anthony Pasmore.
    • In the mid 16th century a quarter of the walk was set with old oak and the rest with oak, thorn, maple, birch, hazel, withies, holly, and ash.
    • The use of the Forest as an exclusive hunting ground waned during the reign of Charles II and the office of "Keeper of the Walk" became a Grace and Favour appointment.

  • 5Baseball
    An instance of being awarded (or allowing a batter to reach) first base after not swinging at four balls pitched outside the strike zone.

    〔棒球〕自由上垒

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He worked eight innings and gave up five runs on nine hits while recording nine strikeouts and four walks.
    • It's still three strikes you're out and four balls for a walk but so much of the fun is gone.
    • Still winless since his arrival last month, Galva issued four walks and a wild pitch that proved to be the difference in the game.
    • Hitters need a good track record of success, with walk rates as a key indicator.
    • In his career, he issued 70 walks in 160 innings pitched and collected 50 strikeouts.

Phrases

  • walking encyclopedia

    • informal A person who has an impressive knowledge of facts or words.

      〈非正式〉万宝全书，活词典

      Example sentencesExamples
      • When it comes to nutrition, this man is a walking encyclopedia.
      • There are people who are walking encyclopedias, but they make a mess of their lives.
      • Henry's a walking encyclopaedia of Manchester City knowledge.
      • It's very useful indeed to have friends who are like walking encyclopedias.
      • Bitton says the activists do have a role to play in the club - as walking encyclopedias, sources of information for the other side.
      • He also said the judge is ‘almost a virtual walking encyclopedia of the law, especially Supreme Court law.’
      • The man is a walking encyclopedia, with vast knowledge of history, the classics, politics, and anything else one can possibly think of.
      • Don't act like you've never heard a swear word before, the lot of you are walking dictionaries.
      • He is a walking encyclopedia of names, dates and facts relating to the history of the sport and the Hall of Fame.
      • Then you realize that this guy is the walking encyclopedia of his sport.

  • a walk in the park

    • informal Something that is very easy to accomplish.

      as any director will tell you, doing Shakespeare isn't a walk in the park
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This period was a walk in the park compared to next.
      • Being stuck alone with my father isn't a walk in the park.
      • The music rounds in particular were a walk in the park.
      • For a man this talented, innovation should be a walk in the park.
      • This is a walk in the park compared to a couple of years ago.
      • What happened in Georgia recently was a walk in the park by comparison.
      • Go on, it'll be a walk in the park.
      • My life is a walk in the park compared to Ferret's these days.
      • Prostate cancer is not a walk in the park.
      • The audited statements made the financial part of the due diligence process a walk in the park.
      Synonyms
      easy task, easy job, child's play, nothing, five-finger exercise, gift, walkover, sinecure

  • walk someone off their feet

    • Walk with someone until they are exhausted.

      使某人走得精疲力竭

      Example sentencesExamples
      • At the time I was about seventy-five years and Leon wasn't too far behind me but he walked me off my feet.
      • Aged 70 she holidayed in Oban with son Anthony, walked him off his feet on a 14- mile hike, then completed the trek by doing the splits.
      • Dr Graham walked me off my feet round the cathedral and other historic parts of the city.

  • walk of life

    • The position within society that someone holds or the part of society to which they belong as a result of their job or social status.

      社会地位；界

      the courses attracted people from all walks of life

      这些课程吸引了各界人士。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some are accountants and professionals who have been involved in other walks of life.
      • It says the society welcomes people from all walks of life and backgrounds.
      • They come from all walks of life and are directed by professional artists and production staff.
      • In this job you get to know people from many walks of life and professions.
      • They are anguished arguments and they take place in all classes and walks of life.
      • That's the way it is in any walk of life, and this arena is no different.
      • Retained firefighters come from all walks of life and are the lifeblood of the brigade in rural areas.
      • This will result in the making of better professionals in every walk of life.
      • Queensland's hotline for the elderly fields calls from all walks of life and situations.
      • In every walk of life, in every profession for hundreds of years, people have been looking to get an advantage.
      Synonyms
      class, status, rank, caste, station, sphere, arena, area, domain, realm

  • walk of shame

    • informal An instance of walking back home on the day after an unplanned casual sexual encounter, typically dressed in the same clothes as the previous evening.

      if you're at his and have to make the dreaded walk of shame home, steel yourself
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The rest were pretty much your run-of-the mill one-night stands—you know, stumbling home drunk from a bar, having mediocre drunken sex, and then, of course, the walk of shame in the harsh light of day.
      • Then comes this morning, and the walk of shame.
      • "My first record was about the girl who stays out all night and does the walk of shame the next morning," she says in Interview magazine.
      • Following a heavy night on the ale in Chester city centre, two of my housemates were spotted do the 'walk of shame' down Bouverie Street mid-Monday morning.
      • Then, on my way home, Dave kissed me and I let things go too far, ending up with me leaving for the walk of shame the next morning.
      • However, if you're moved to make that no-strings-attached booty call, just be sure he's coming to your place so he has to take the walk of shame back home the next morning.
      • This is like doing the walk of shame.
      • It was funny watching him do the walk of shame home the next morning.
      • You can't imagine that these pretty young things might wake up in a stranger's bed or find themselves doing the walk of shame, stilettos in hand, at 9 am as joggers stride past on a Sunday morning.
      • Dave's solitary walk of shame was met by mass indifference as he picked his way amongst rush hour traffic.

  • walk on eggshells

    • Be extremely cautious about one's words or actions.

      谨言慎行

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Staff and pupils spent Friday walking on eggshells, and at one point it was touch and go if the school's spring concert's star attractions would arrive on time to be raffled.
      • I'm tired of walking on eggshells around people who don't feel the same way as me.
      • All his belongings are still in the flat near to our house and I am going to be walking on eggshells now until it is empty."
      • Of course, as a guy I'm walking on eggshells simply discussing this.
      • "Yeah, but you don't have to walk on eggshells around me.
      • Still, getting on with ordinary office routine and procedure, we suspect, was akin to walking on eggshells.
      • Thanks for being the voice of reason in this world of walking on eggshells about people's feelings.
      • I always felt I was walking on eggshells, avoiding what you didn't want to talk about, or didn't dare talk about.
      • So far, most American media outlets seem to be walking on eggshells to avoid tough coverage of the new pope.
      • We were constantly walking on eggshells because we were worried about upsetting him in case it would cause a situation.

  • walk the streets

    • 1Walk freely in a town or city.

      穿街走巷

      Example sentencesExamples
      • All people of all races, of all faiths can walk the streets of our cities, towns and villages.
      • ‘Irish people are scared to walk the streets of the capital city at night for fear of either being assaulted themselves or witnessing an attack,’ said Mr Costello.
      • Large numbers of snake charmers once could be seen walking the streets of cities and towns, their cloth-covered baskets hanging from bamboo poles slung across the shoulders.
      • It is the first duty of any Government to protect the public and it seems increasingly clear that we no longer know who is walking the streets of our towns and villages.
      • Some of the men and women walking the streets of our towns, cities and villages are actually not well.
      • Many people are now afraid to walk the streets of their own towns at night, which is an enormous shame.
      • Time and again, we feel we are there, in the state rooms of senators and princes, or sailing the Mediterranean in a small, swift boat, or walking the streets of the great city itself.
      • My trusty spies have been at work again recently, spotting the ‘rich’ and ‘famous’ as they walk the streets of this fine city.
      • The very best days were those spent walking the streets of your lovely town of Lismore.
      • With the passing of our Town Hall those days are now but distant memories and far removed from an era when it is no longer safe to walk the streets of our town in early morning.

    • 2Work as a prostitute.

      当妓女

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I can only take it that this question refers to ‘adult’ prostitutes, the kind we see walking the streets in most towns and cities, or working in saunas and massage parlours.
      • He made friends with the prostitutes who walked the streets and even the Narcs, who sold their vials of death on every street corner.
      • But they have vowed to carry on walking the streets near the town centre because they believe they have no alternative.
      • We see 13 and 14-year-olds walking the streets of Manukau selling themselves, because they cannot afford to support themselves.
      • They say an increasing number of prostitutes are walking the streets bringing violent and drug-related crime with them.
      • Alongside the strip clubs, peep shows, and massage parlors, a large number of prostitutes walked the streets.
      • People who object to prostitutes walking the streets near their homes would be pleased as prostitutes would be allowed to advertise in appropriate media and so ‘work from home’.
      • Beggars, gamblers, drunkards, and prostitutes walked the streets, looking for money which, one way or the other, they would get.
      • If the police crack down on the prostitutes who walk the streets, and the curb-crawlers who provide them their trade, they will be forced off of the streets.
      • As the prostitute walks the streets and alleys, she incorporates herself into the city through her communion with the crowd.
      Synonyms
      working as a prostitute, involved in prostitution, whoring, prostituting oneself, selling oneself, selling one's body, walking the streets, on the streets, practising the oldest profession, working in the sex industry

  • walk the walk

    • informal Suit one's actions to one's words.

      〈主北美〉言行一致

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some really do hold to their word and walk their talk.
      • If you care what others think of you, want to be happier and make others happier, then walk your talk.
      • She is a woman who walks her talk which is often reflected in her writing and art.
      • But in this field of new-media communication, you'd better be able to walk your talk.
      • My son places a high premium on loyalty to family and friends, and he has been raised to walk his talk.
      • It's the first time I'm really walking my talk as an environmentalist.
      • The people that truly succeed in the fitness industry walk their talk by promoting and leading healthy lives.
      • And I concluded it's better to walk your talk than to talk.
      • As I look back, I feel that I was not really walking my talk.
      • Why is it important, as we now say, to walk our talk?

  • walk the wards

    • dated Gain experience as a clinical medical student.

      〈旧〉在医院里实习

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We employed two medical students to walk the wards for 28 nights, obtaining independent information about each event requiring a resident doctor or clinical site practitioner between 10 pm and 8am.
      • I had just finished my preclinical training at Cambridge and had come down to London to walk the wards at Bart's.
      • A year's experience in walking the wards was required.
      • What you want is doctors who will walk the wards.

  • win in a walk

    • Win without effort or competition.

      〈美〉轻易取胜

      Example sentencesExamples
      • When forced to choose between Lanie and his son, it's no contest: the son wins in a walk and, while it's a drag to lose Lanie, Pete's pretty stoic about the whole thing.
      • If you are wrong, what do you do then, if he doesn't win in a walk, let's say, in November?
      • ‘If it was an open primary Bailey would win in a walk,’ he said.
      • The first theory to float up was that fans would be allowed to vote for one driver - an election Junior would win in a walk.
      • I mean, even if he wins Ohio, if his opponent wins New York and California, which the polls suggest he's going to win in a walk, isn't it game, set, match?
      • A Republican Congressional candidate in Indiana, Chris Chocola, won in a walk, thus sparing us all ‘Re-Count Chocola’ headlines.
      • Last week I wrote that Johnson would win in a walk.

  • walk all over

    • 1informal Treat in a thoughtless, disrespectful, and exploitative manner.

      〈非正式〉轻蔑地对待

      they thought they could come in and walk all over us
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You've been treating me with such kindness and I've walked all over you as though you were mud.
      • Guys do not want girls who are too nice to them, or girls they can walk all over and get too easily.
      • All his life people have used, abused and walked all over him.
      • For some reason, beyond my comprehension, our Government seems prepared to allow continental operators to walk all over us in this manner and it is quite scandalous.
      • Minding one's manners is not synonymous with playing doormat and having people walk all over you.
      • If no-one speaks up then she just walks all over guys, which at least means that she treats them equally.
      • It showed that the league were weak and let one of their own members ‘walk all over them’ .
      Synonyms
      take advantage of, impose on, exploit, make use of, use, abuse, misuse, manipulate, take liberties with, trifle with, play with
      1. 1.1Defeat easily.
        轻易地击败
        Example sentencesExamples
        • The National League walked all over them.
        • The results reflected the change that has come over Indian morale and training since the grim days of 1962, when the Chinese walked all over them.
        Synonyms
        trounce, beat hollow, defeat utterly, rout, annihilate, triumph over, win a resounding victory over, be victorious over, crush, overwhelm, best, get the better of, worst, bring someone to their knees

Phrasal Verbs

  • walk away

    • Easily, casually, or irresponsibly abandon a situation in which one is involved or for which one is responsible.

      轻易脱身，随便（或不负责任地）离开

      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the morning she walks away to her new life without a backward look.
      • It is not good enough for these politicians to walk away and ignore the situation.
      • Maybe then fewer men and women would walk away from parenting responsibilities.
      • If one of those unions walks away, there will be winners and there will be losers.
      • If somebody's hurling abuse at you, it may be better to just walk away from the situation.
      • When Jane leaves Archie, what she walks away from isn't men, but literature.
      • The two men casually walked away when they saw the witness coming towards them.
      • Some fear the turnaround will fall apart if Davies walks away.
      • And the players would be free to walk away if the club were to default on their wages on Friday.
      • There is a tendency, at present, for some to simply walk away to avoid becoming involved.

  • walk away with

    • 1Steal.

      偷走

      a group of corporate cowboys who walked away with millions of dollars

    • 2Win.

      轻易赢得

      teams finishing 4th, 5th, and 6th walked away with gift coupons and certificates

  • walk something back

    • Retract a statement or reverse an action or decision.

      when given the chance to walk her remarks back, she did not
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Offered a chance to walk his gaffe back, the poor fellow only digs himself deeper.
      • Republican leaders have since walked back their support of the measure.
      • He walked back his comments almost immediately. Who knows where he really stands on the issue?
      • And it does appear that he's walking back his statement, trying not to, perhaps, lose friends and favor in Washington at this time.
      • Gingrich has since walked back those comments, insisting he is focused on the economic crisis.
      • A day later he walked his comments back.
      • I think everybody kind of gets the gist of what she is trying to say, but it is also true that she is walking back several of her statements.
      • Representatives of European Union member nations are walking back parts of the 1995 Dayton Agreement that had put an end to the three-and-a-half year war that had torn the country apart.
      • And then later the military, the joint chiefs, tried to walk back the nuclear option, which is, of course, crazy.
      • As you know, we're already starting to walk back the emergency measures we took in the crisis.

  • walk for

    • Model the clothes of (a particular designer or fashion house) at a fashion show.

      she's walked for Chanel and Vivienne Westwood
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Two different looks: Cara walks for Jason Wu and sports a preppy guise at DKNY.
      • Crystal Renn is walking for everyone!
      • The model has a lengthy relationship with the fashion house, having walked for Calvin Klein in 1987.
      • Looking elegant in golden fish-tail gown, she walked for Rocky on the penultimate day of the four-day fashion event.
      • We've also seen her walking for Saint Laurent and Chanel.
      • We had 3 models that walked for the amazing designer Kesia Estwick.
      • Montana has walked for some of the world's most coveted fashion houses.
      • His runway career began when he walked for Givenchy in 2012, and he has previously posed for Swedish underwear label Bjorn Borg.
      • There's at least 6 shows per day at LA Fashion Week and I often see the same models walking for multiple designers.

  • walk in on

    • 1Enter suddenly or unexpectedly.

      突然（或冷不防）入内

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We aren't very careful with how we act around each other and we leave opportunities for people to just walk in on us in a compromising situation.
      • We walked past them but to our horror we then walked in on a couple having sex in the church porch area.
      • It's a very weird scene that Amanda walks in on, that's for sure.
      • Valery opens the door and enters, walking in on Benjamin and Catherine's conversation.
      • Upon his return he walked in on her ‘entertaining’.
      • One of the most poignant scenes shows them entering a church, walking in on a wedding ceremony still in progress.
      • The 16 year old Tara walks in on him while he is shaving in the bathroom
      • The relief was so blatant in her voice that Isabella hesitated inside the entry of the room, fearing what exactly she'd walked in on.
      • Jack stood on the outside of the door, grinning insanely, with his own thoughts of what he had just walked in on.
      • One day I came home from classes in the mid afternoon and walked in on Derek who was obviously not expecting me for some time.
      1. 1.1Intrude on.
        侵扰，打扰
        he was clearly not expecting her to walk in on him just then

        显然他没有想到就在那个时候她会来打扰他。

        Example sentencesExamples
        • I just hope I covered my feelings up well because I felt awkward walking in on that.
        • Suddenly she walked in on his life and he could think of nothing but her.
        • Shannon snapped his fingers as if remembering the situation he had unexpectedly walked in on.
        • I think I'm developing a knack for walking in on situations like this.
        • today I left about 45 minutes earlier than I normally would and whilst driving back my mind started to think about what I might walk in on.
        • Now his mind filled with relief he walked in on yet another difficult situation which seemed to surround his life although this was a little more serious than he had expected.
        • The 26-year-old mother was stabbed in February at a travel agency in Toronto, Canada when she reportedly walked in on a robbery/murder in progress.
        • The former Scotland scrum-half was so thoroughly underwhelmed by yesterday's performance that any outsider walking in on his post-mortem could have been forgiven for assuming that Kelso had lost.
        • She made a call to police, who walked in on Starr as he entered the kitchen of the 90-year-old woman.

  • walk into

    • Encounter or become involved in through ignorance or carelessness.

      〈非正式〉愚昧地（或不慎）陷入

      I had walked into a situation from which there was no escape

      我不慎陷入了一个没有退路的境地。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • At first he has everything under control but then the lovely Erica walks into his life.
      • They are walking into a favourable demographic situation, and recognize the fact.
      • No-one can walk into a situation and make things world class just like that - it takes time.
      • He gets a ticket to scout film locations in Fiji, and walks into Rabuka's coup.
      • There was no chance you could walk into the Hibs situation at that time and change it overnight.

  • walk off with

    • 1Steal.

      偷走

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Back at the bar where tales were told and the amber liquid flowed none of the fisherman noticed that two males and a female calmly picked up the 3 black liner bags and walked off with the main fish catch!
      • I had no problems walking off with it from the ‘secure’ area of the station.
      • The fraudsters then calmly walked off with £40,000 from the pub's safe.
      • Then Fry walks off with Laurie's silver cutlery and returns with a bin liner full of plastic forks and knives which he dumps on the table.
      • I headed back in the store with Spense and we found out that the woman behind me had picked it up and walked off with it.
      • About a month after he arrives, he walks off with all her jewellery and one of her daughters.
      • Their success in picking the locks of the bank and walking off with the £22 million must have been an ease to them as they contemplated what presents to get for their offspring.
      • He walked off with £22.40, but staff at the off-licence took CCTV tapes to the police, who later arrested him.
      • In a situation like the Bahamas, huge multi-nationals with headquarters elsewhere are walking off with our monetary resources, while calling it a gain for us.
      Synonyms
      steal, thieve, make off with, run off with, carry off, help oneself to, rob, pilfer, purloin, pocket, snatch, take, appropriate, abstract

    • 2Win.

      轻易赢得

      the team walked off with a silver medal

      该小组轻易捧走了一块银牌。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • With Kent pressing for second place they ignored five lights on the meter until they felt content with their day's work, Waugh walking off with 17 fours and a six off his 234 balls.
      • But Laura, 18, walked off with all 20 prizes after being randomly selected to take part in a quiz section of the programme.
      • Each syndicate member walks off with around £180,000 as their share of the £8.6 million jackpot.
      • The host team also walked off with the fourth-place finish after falling to the Kelowna Owls via a golden goal.
      • The winning team walked off with a cash award of Rs.5,000, a rolling trophy and Reva scholarships worth Rs.25,000 each.
      • Almost a year of dedication paid off for the Iphutheng Primary School team, which walked off with the Carnegie Cup at this year's Story Skirmish.
      • Vaughan had received 180 balls and stroked a dozen fours and when the innings was wrapped up Caddick walked off with five for 81.
      • While judo captivated Japanese fans at the Sydney Summer Olympics, where Japan's athletes walked off with most medals in the sport, it has been on the decline at home.
      • During the awards ceremony, Nedson Siame scooped the Best Male Soloist Award while Namakau Sikoti walked off with the Best Female Soloist title.
      • In the end, Phelps walked off with six golds and two bronzes, hardly a failure.
      • When these two sides last met at Murrayfield, Ulster walked off with the Celtic Cup and the visitors stole the honours again yesterday despite missing 12 men from their front-line squad through injury and rest.
      • It would be bad business to let Sanders walk off with $8 million for one slightly above-average season.
      Synonyms
      win easily, win hands down, achieve, attain, earn, gain, receive, obtain, acquire, secure, collect, pick up, come away with, net

  • walk something off

    • Exercise on foot in order to undo the effects of a heavy meal.

      以散步的方式消除（因吃得过多而产生的不良反应）

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We walked the pizza off across the Brooklyn Bridge back to Manhattan and took a quick shufty round before heading back to the hotel.
      • Still, it was filling, and like last time we left the table feeling stuffed, happy to walk it off.
      • We went to Covent Garden to try to walk the sickness off.
      • And don't worry about being too full after a night on the town; there's bound to be a hill on the way home where you can walk it off.
      • After all that, walk it off with a stroll through the quaint old Tivoli gardens, one of Europe's original amusement parks.
      • The next restaurant was a twenty minute walk down the road - I attempted to walk my meal off, but felt somewhat sick upon my arrival after all the moving around.
      • I'm not going to lie to you: this isn't the world's healthiest recipe. But you can walk it off so indulge!

  • walk out

    • 1Depart suddenly or angrily.

      突然（或愤然）离去

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He had been falsely accused of stopping the publication of a leaflet and angrily walked out of a party meeting and broke with the party.
      • Deuba said the rebels had suddenly walked out of peace talks and chose to perpetrate violence of unprecedented scale in the country.
      • I've never actually walked out on a film at the theatre, on the theory that perhaps there's something in the last five minutes that somehow redeems the rest of the mess.
      • All of a sudden three people walk out of the screening, and this guy is pulling out his hair.
      • It ended without the governor of Minnesota in attendance, because he walked out on the shameful display.
      • Mrs. Trunk attended the Harvard graduation ceremonies and walked out on Annan's speech.
      • That she gave up and walked out on 15,000 spectators, who had paid £67 a ticket earned her few friends.
      • With that remark, he got to his feet and walked out, practically pushing Ash out of his way as he passed him.
      • Delegates walked out on the minister last year after he told them they had to cut the annual €60m overtime bill.
      • She looked angrily at Ellimaria and walked out of the dining hall, slamming the oversized doors behind her.
      Synonyms
      leave suddenly, make a sudden departure, get up and go, storm off, storm out, flounce out, push off, depart, leave, get out, absent oneself, take wing
      1. 1.1Leave one's job suddenly.
        突然辞职
        Example sentencesExamples
        • Still ahead, tens of thousands of supermarket employees all across the country have walked out on the job.
        • This sentence will definitely go into the history of the newspaper - he is the first department director who can walk out with this clear reason and he is a true man.
        • I walked out of a job without having another one lined up.
        • I've just remembered one of the reasons that I originally got the first contract 3 years ago, was all the reps from other companies had walked out on him.
        • I walked out and am so glad I did.
      2. 1.2Go on strike.
        罢工
        Example sentencesExamples
        • If academics vote to strike they could walk out next month or in March.
        • The company's 600 guards are due to walk out on strike again on Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2.
        • Then they and other trade unionists walked out for a day.
        • Up to two million workers walked out in the biggest strike France has seen since the mass public sector strikes of December 1995.
        • Workers on the Sterling Heights picket line said they walked out over pension and health-care issues.
        • Newham has more CCTV cameras than any other authority, but they were useless when the workers monitoring them kicked off the strike by walking out on the stroke of midnight.
        • His 80 colleagues walked out in a spontaneous strike.
        • Lecturers at Brooksby Melton College in Leicestershire walked out in a one-day strike over pay this week.
        • But when casuals were used in Harrow to sort blacked mail, staff walked out and joined the strike.
        • Relations with management are so bad that as well as the official strikes, 25 porters walked out unofficially recently.
        Synonyms
        go on strike, call a strike, strike, withdraw one's labour, stop work, take industrial action
      3. 1.3Abandon someone or something toward which one has responsibilities.
        抛弃（某人或对其负有责任的某事物）
        he walked out on his wife

        他抛弃了自己的妻子。

        Example sentencesExamples
        • How they wish she could be back with them, how they hope for a miracle, but not for the return of Avril's husband, who walked out on the family for another woman.
        • Not there yesterday to greet her was her father, who walked out on the family when Marion was four and subsequently spurned all his daughter's attempts to meet him.
        • Even the most hostile versions of his family story can't obscure the fact that he walked out on five children who struggled to survive without him.
        • Ghanaians are still stunned that their national coach, Mariano Barreto, walked out on the job to become the Maritimo boss - without telling them.
        • A man who suffered at the hands of a brutal father, walked out on his wife and children while playing in France and then started a fresh life with his lover who had just given birth to his daughter.
        • The third friend is a policeman, whose wife has just walked out on him.
        • We're meant to feel sympathy for a man who walked out on his kid some 14 years earlier, who once even beat his wife after a vicious yelling match escalated.
        • When Yates walked out on him after 18 years, he was devastated.
        • When he walked out on the family, abandoning a wife gravely ill with cancer, he said he had found ‘a greater cause, to serve God’.
        • After having two more children, Mary walked out on her husband in 1981.
        Synonyms
        desert, abandon, leave, leave in the lurch, betray, run away from, throw over, jilt, run out on, rat on

    • 2Go for walks in courtship.

      〈英，非正式，旧〉（求爱时）散步

      you were walking out with Tom

      你在散步时跟汤姆谈恋爱。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • But you aren't walking out with him or anybody else, understand?
      • That's what the headlines said when the golfer started walking out with the beautiful Spanish model Ines Sastre.
      • Sir Charles Bunbury called on her, and insisted on walking out with her, and became rather particular, but our heroine was inflexible.
      • The next you know, Grazia's teenage daughter is walking out with the policeman and Grazia is driving around with three children on the scooter.

  • walk over

    • 1Treat in an inconsiderate or exploitative manner.

      〈非正式〉轻蔑地对待

      people always walked over him and didn't treat him with respect
      Example sentencesExamples
      • To others he is nothing short of a ruthless builder of wealth and prestige with little concern for those whom he walks over to get what he wants.
      • I'm not going to say you're so feeble that you let the tabloid press walk over you.
      • He let Powell walk over him too much.
      • She has money problems to rival the national debt, more people walking over her than a 'Welcome' mat and the requisite ex-boyfriend from hell.
      1. 1.1Defeat easily.
        轻易地击败
        a slippery, trickier competitor could walk over them

  • walk through

    • 1Rehearse (a play or other piece), reading the lines aloud from a script and performing the actions of the characters.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the line up I start by reminding the actors of how we approached the scene in rehearsal and then asking them just to walk through the action.
      • Expecting an actor to have the stamina to walk through a piece dozens of times while the set dressers worry about where to place a fire hydrant, and then provide a fresh, emotional performance just isn't reasonable.
      1. 1.1Act or perform in a perfunctory or lackluster manner.
        Example sentencesExamples
        • But, along with the rest of the cast, the lead actor barely walks through his role and delivers his lines by rote.

  • walk someone through

    • Guide (someone) carefully through a process.

      a meeting to walk parents through the complaint process

      〈喻〉引导家长按程序提意见的会议。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Very briefly, walk us through that legal process.
      • Can you walk us through, essentially, the process under which a person is designated a saint by the Roman Catholic church?
      • The program is pretty self-explanatory and walks you through the process of scanning your hard drives and registry, identifying spyware components, and removing them.
      • The documentation that comes with the system is fairly complete and walks you through the install process easily.
      • I'm trying to walk you through the drafting process.
      • It's OK to feel it, but we also want them to take it a step further and help us walk them through the process.
      • The book will walk you through the process, from locating the necessary supplies and ingredients to preparing your own starter culture.
      • Your consultant should be able to help you identify the necessary permits and walk you through the permitting process.
      • Let me walk you through the process of making the switch.
      • John, first of all, can you walk us through the process right now?

Origin

Old English wealcan ‘roll, toss’, also ‘wander’, of Germanic origin. The sense ‘move about’, and specifically ‘go about on foot’, arose in Middle English.

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