heel/hiːl/

n C

1. 脚后跟，踵

• The shoes have rubbed my heel. 这双鞋把我的脚后跟磨破了。

2. (鞋、袜等的)后跟

• high (或low)heels 高(或低)跟鞋

• You have a hole in the heels of your sock. 你的袜子后跟破了一个洞。

3. 踵状物，手掌跟

4. 大提琴弓把

5. 俚 恶棍，卑鄙的家伙

词组at (或on) the heels of 紧跟(人或事件)

• Famine often follows at the heels of war. 饥荒紧随战乱之后发生。

bring sb.to heel 使就范，使俯首贴耳 come to heels

1. (狗)紧随其后

2. 服从

take to one's heels 拔腿逃走

• He took to his heels and ran. 他拔腿就跑。

turn on one's heel 转身离去 under the heel of 在…的控制下；被…践踏，被…蹂躏

• The country was then under the heel of a dictator. 那个国家那时处在一个独裁者的统治之下。