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HEEL(S)
1.
a
heel
a completely unreliable person;
one who is without scruples or ordinary decency
完全不可靠的人；卑鄙小人；没良心的人；不正派的人；食客；寄生虫；告密者。
1.1
Don
’
t fall into
company with such a guy who is a heel.
不能为这样一个完全不可靠的人结为伙伴。
1.2
Y
ou cannot rely on him, he
is an out-and-out heel and untrustworthy.
你不能依赖他，他是一个彻头彻尾的卑鄙小人，绝对不可信赖
2.
Achilles
’
heel /
the heel of Achilles
The weak spot in a
person
’
s character
弱点；要害；可乘之隙；致命打击之处。
2.1
The original
Wall Street crash occurred on Monday 28 October
1929 when the Dow Jones Industrial
A
verage
fell by 13%. On
Monday, 19 October, 1987 the Dow Jones
A
verage lost 25%. In both cases Black
Monday in
the USA
triggered
heavy stock market falls around the world.
A
general depression is a pronounced
feature of
economic activity, and is
also the vulnerable point, the Achilles heel for
economic growth.
最初的华尔街股票暴跌发生在
1929
年
10
月
28
日星期一，
当时道琼斯工业平均指
数下跌了
13%
。
1987
年
10
月
19
日星期一道琼斯平均指数下跌了
23%
。美国的两
个黑色的星期一使全球证券市场急剧下滑。大
萧条使经济活动的一个显著的特点，这样也
是它的特点，经济增长的要害所在。
2.2
Falsified
accounts,
monkey
business
to control
the stock
exchange,
excessive
speculation
on
the
shares
of
most unsound companies,
exercising no supervisory power, as a result of
which the prices of the shares were
pushed up the heaven above, to an
extremely high level that bore no relation to
their real value, and then fell
down
to
the
earth
beneath
to
their
fatality.
Here
is
the
Achilles
’
heel
for
the
Chinese
stock
exchange,
the
bubble. There will not be barometer
stock in China.
做做帐，弄虚作假以控制证券交易
，对大多数被来经营不当公司股份过度投机，无法行使监督权力，
这一切的结果把那些公
司股票的价格抬到天上，与它们真正价值毫无关系的规定，然后就降到了地上以至
于致命
性底度。这就是中国证券交易的致命弱点，泡沫经济。在中国证券不是经济的晴雨表。
3.
at one
’
s heels /
on one
’
s heels
following closely behind someone
接踵而来；给在后面；尾随；紧跟不舍。
3.1
Every day she
walks past my house, with little black dog at her
heels.
每天她经过我的屋子时，一条小黑狗跟在她的后面。
3.2
She became
tired of the guy keeping close at her heels all
day and could hardly get rid of him anyway.
1
她很烦那个家伙整天紧跟她后面，无论如何也无法摆脱了他。
3.3
Father took a
plane back on the heels of his parcel sent home by
express.
父亲乘飞机回家，紧跟他后的是特快专递寄回家的包裹。
3.4
The sea waves
ran so high that swept over the breakwater, they
followed so fast on one
another
’
s heels that
they rushed ashore and swallowed up the
beach, the trees, the houses and every thing.
海浪冲击是那么高以至越过防波堤，
大浪一个紧跟着一个速度是那么快结
果冲上了岸，
臀木噢了沙滩，
树木，房子和一切。
3.5
Irene
came back home after school with her classmates
at her heels for dinner, but mother
didn
’
t prepare for
so many.
4.
bring someone
to heel / come to heel
(make someone) obey the rules; put
under control
使驯服；使遵守规矩，停火；控制
…
..
（喊狗）跟在后面。
4.1
He
’
ll soon come
to heel if I start to get nasty with him.
如果我开始讨厌它她就乖乖地驯服。
4.2
Tell him
you
’
ll leave him if he does
it again. That
’
ll bring him
to heel,
I’
m sure.
如果他
再这样你就对他说你要离他而去。我肯定那样就让他听你的。
4.3
Someone who
refuses to follow the party line must be brought
to heel before he does lasting damage.
如果有人不遵循党的路线，在他继
续造成的危害之前就的要他服从党章。
4.4
All those
lazy workers must come to heel, or they will lose
their job
所有那些偷懒的工人都必须遵守规则，否则他们就丢饭碗。
5.
cool one
’
s heel
be kept waiting (by
another
’
s pride or rudeness)
苦苦等候，挨等；坐冷板凳。
5.1
The
bank
manager
had
asked to see
her
at
four
o
’
clock
but
she
had
to sit
cooling
her
heels
for
almost
45
minutes.
银行经理在四点钟要见她，但她坐
了
45
分钟的冷板凳挨等。
5.2
I had to cool
my heels in front of the
receptionist
’
s counter for
an hour before the big shot would see me.
在接待员柜台前苦苦等候了一个小时那位大人物才愿意见我。
5.3
He was left
to cool his heels outside the house when he
delivered a Hoover to the hostess.
他把一台胡弗牌真空吸尘器送到买主那里，他被留在屋外挨等。
6.
dig one
’
s heels
in
(informal) refuse to do something or
change one
’
s views; to act
firmly; refuse to change
one
’
s mind
站稳自己的脚跟；坚定自己的立场；坚持自己的观点；坚决进行；拒绝改变意见。
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6.1
A
number of councils have dig their heels in over
the government
’
s request to
reduce the spending.
一些委员对政府要求减少开支拒绝改变这项主张
6.2
The committee
tried to persuade the chairman to give them more
time for a decision, but he dug his heels in
and refused to listen.
委员会试图说服主席给他们更多的时间做出决定，但他坚定自己的立场拒不听从
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7.
down at heel /
(adj)
down-at-heel
poorly dressed and in a state of
poverty; shabby; not neat; sloppy
Origin: This idiom refers to the worn
heels of old shoes
衣衫褴褛，穷极潦倒的样子；邋里邋遢；不雅
观（源自抹掉后跟的鞋，不体面）
7.1 Since he
lost his job, he begun to look rather down at
heel.
自从他失业后，他开始被看来像穷极潦倒的样子。
7.2 Huts in slums look down at heel
贫民窟里的小屋看来既不雅观。
8.
drag one
’
s feet /
heels
so something very slowly or delay
doing something because one does not want to do it
拖后腿；拖拖拉拉；延迟行动；裹足不前。
8.1
How much
longer will the government go on dragging
it heels about whether to invest more
money in the
railways?
是否投资铁路的问题政府还要拖拉到多久。
8.2
The children
wanted to watch television, and dragged their
heels when their mother told them to go to bed.
孩子们想看电视，母亲要他们去睡觉时他们就拖拖拉拉不想去。
9.
hard / hot on
somebody
’
s heels
following someone closely because one
wants to catch them
紧跟不舍；跟踪；追捕。
9.1
Jane has the
most points at the moment, but the other
competitors are hot on her heels.
詹森得分最多，但其他的竞争对手紧跟不舍。
9.2
The police
are hard on his heels.
警察正在追捕他。
10.
head over heels (in love) (in debt,
etc.)
completely in love, in debt, etc.
深深地；完全地（热爱，负债，等）
10.1
He
’
s head over
heels in love with his new girlfriend.
他深深地爱她的新女朋友
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