1on tiptoe/on (your) tiptoesSTANDif you stand or walk on tiptoe, you stand or walk on your toes, in order to make yourself taller or in order to walk very quietly 踮着脚
She stood on tiptoe to kiss him.
她踮起脚吻他。
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stood on tiptoe• Cleo stood on tiptoe, trying to see who hidbehind the door.• If he stood on tiptoe, he could reach the shelf.• People stood on tiptoe to see, they questioned everyone who was turned back in order to estimate their own chances.• Riven stood on tiptoe to try and see what was going on.• Four foot ten, she stood on tiptoe to kiss me on the cheek.• Then she stood on tiptoe, kissed me and was gone.
They were tiptoeing around the delicate subject of money.
他们对钱这一敏感话题避而不谈。
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tiptoe• She tiptoed across the aisle and sat down beside the motionless figure.• They tiptoed along corridorsshining and antiseptic, peeped at him where he lay, inert, in his white bed.• I tiptoed along the passage to Claire's door and peeped in.• He tiptoed closer, smiling broadly, waiting for Suzanne to spot him.• Sometimes Fatetiptoes discreetly at the margins of our lives, averting her eyes and keeping her distance.• It's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door.• The oldest daughtermotioned to the third daughter, who tiptoed into the circle the women had made around the old man.• Even so, he tiptoed into war, never quite believing that it would reach the magnitude it did.• He tiptoed out of the room, trying not to wake the baby.