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/wɔːk/ |
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1 | a short journey that you make by walking 走;步行 |
| It’ s an easy walk from our house to the post office. 从我们家走到邮局没多远。 |
| 1a | a distance or amount of time it takes to walk somewhere 步行的距离(或时间) | | My office is a five-minute walk from the bus station. 从公共汽车站到我的办公室要步行5分钟。 | |
| 1b | the way that someone walks 步态;走路的姿势 | | Ican recognize Joan by her walk. 我从琼走路的样子能认出她来。 | |
| 1c | to walk for pleasure rather than for practical reasons 散步 | | Let’ s go for a walk before it gets too hot. 趁天气还不热,我们去散散步吧。 | | Feel free to take a walk around the garden. 随便在花园里散步,不要拘束。 | |
| 1d | to walk with a person or animal 带着某人/某物散步 | | Chris took the dog for a walk after work. 克里斯下班后带着狗去散步。 | |
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2 | a road or path that people walk on , especially through a pleasant area (尤指步行穿过的令人愉悦的)道路,小径 |
| The walk to the beach took them through a small forest. 步行去海滩经过了一个小树林。 |
| 2a | a path across someone’ s grass or garden that is often made of hard material for people to walk on (穿过草地或花园的)小路 | | He came up the walk, whistling and smelling the roses. 他走向花园的小径,吹着口哨,闻着玫瑰花的香味。 | |
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3 | an event in which people walk a particular distance and ask friends to give them money for how far they walk . The money is given to charity (为慈善筹款而进行的)徒步旅行 |
| asponsored walk (=in which people pay you an agreed amount for every mile) 得到赞助的徒步旅行 |
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4 | AMERICAN in baseball , an occasion when a batter gets to walk to first base (棒球运动中击球员的)自由上垒 |
PHRASES |
- | from all walks of life |
| used for saying that a group consists of all types of people with different backgrounds, jobs etc |
| 来自各行各业的;来自各界的 |
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- | take a walk |
| an insulting way to tell someone to leave a place or situation |
| (侮辱性用语)走开,滚开 |
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