| 释义 |
heel /hiːl/► SEE ALLcome to heelbring sb to heeldown at heelturn/spin on your heelunder the heel of sban/sb’s Achilles’ heel
●come to ˈheel●bring sb to ˈheelobey the rules; make sb obey the rules （使某人）就范，服从◆He’ll soon come to heel if I start to get nasty with him.
我要是对他凶一点，他很快就会老实的。◆Tell him you’ll leave him if he does it again. That’ll bring him to heel, I’m sure.
告诉他，他要是再这么做你就跟他分手，这样他肯定会听话的。 NOTE If you tell a dog to come to heel, you make it come close to you. * come to heel 原用于唤狗走近。 ●ˌdown at ˈheel (of sb’s appearance 某人的外表) looking poor 衣衫褴褛；穷酸相◆Since he lost his job, he has begun to look rather down at heel.
他丢掉工作后，就开始邋邋遢遢、不修边幅了。 NOTE This idiom refers to the worn heels of old shoes. 这个习语原指旧鞋磨损的后跟。 ●ˌturn/ˌspin on your ˈheelsuddenly turn around and leave, often because you are angry or annoyed （常指因气恼）转身就走◆Quite unexpectedly he turned on his heel and walked out of the door.
真没想到，他转身就走出了大门。●under the ˈheel of sb (literary) completely in sb’s control; dominated by sb 受到…的践踏；受某人控制（或支配）◆For years, the country was under the heel of a dictator.
这个国家被独裁者统治多年。●an/sb’s Achilles’ ˈheela hidden weakness or fault in sb which may be used to harm them 阿喀琉斯之踵；致命弱点◆His pride proved to be his Achilles’ heel.狂妄自大成了他的致命弱点。 ORIGIN This expression is named after the Greek hero Achilles. When he was a small child, his mother dipped him into the river Styx, which meant that he could not be injured. She held him by his heel, which therefore was not touched by the water. Achilles died after being wounded by an arrow in the heel. 这个表达法源于希腊神话。希腊英雄 Achilles （阿喀琉斯）年幼时，母亲将他浸入冥河（斯堤克斯河）中，这样他就能刀枪不入。可由于她用手拎着他的脚踵，这个部位就没有接触到河水。阿喀琉斯最后因脚踵被箭射中而死。 |