甲百匯小鸡词典

toehold

T 开头单词托福词汇

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈtəʊ.həʊld]
  • 美式音标 [ˈtoʊ.hoʊld]
  • 国际音标 ['təuhəuld]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n. 尅服睏難的辦法，排除障礙的方法；小立足點

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英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • They cannot allow these guys to have a real toehold in that area.
    巴基斯坦人不能允許激進分子在那裡有一個真正的立足之地。
  • For these Western institutions, the prize is a toehold in the world’s biggest education market.
    對於這些西方院校來說，能獲得的是在世界最大教育市場的一個小小立足點。
  • I found it impossible to gain a toehold in academia: no one wanted my specialism and my first degree was in a different subject.
    我發現要在學術界立足幾乎不可能：沒有人認同我的專長，因爲我的第一學位是另一個科目。

    • 原聲例句

  • About one-third of Southern white families at one time or another had at least a toehold in slave ownership.
    大約三分之一的南方白人家庭,在某一段時期至少都擁有過奴隸
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    • 權威例句

  • Last year, Norilsk bought U.S.-based Stillwater Mining to gain a toehold in North America.
    FORBES
  • EDF, the state-owned energy giant, as a way of getting a toehold in the French market.
    ECONOMIST: Energy liberalisation in Europe
  • Before the Unoh acquisition, Zynga bought China-based developer XPD Media for a toehold in the Mainland China market.
    FORBES: This Spring's Epochal Upheaval in the Global Gaming Industry

词组短语

    短語

  • Toehold firm 有一定優勢的微型企業
  • Toehold Hidding 試收購
  • toehold purchase 臨界購買額
  • toehold d 排除障礙的方法
  • Toehold Switch 指尖轉換

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • (IN ROCK) a small hole or surface on a rock that is just big enough for a climber to put the end of his or her foot in or on
  • (STRONG FIRST POSITION) a strong first position from which further progress can be made

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you have a toehold in a situation, you have managed to gain an uncertain position or a small amount of power in it, which you hope will give you the opportunity to get a better or more powerful position.