ADJECTIVE | VERB + TOE | TOE + VERB | TOE + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤big大腳趾◇The shoe pressed painfully against her big toe.鞋子把她的大腳趾擠得很痛。➤little, pinky (NAmE) 小腳趾▸➤bare光着腳趾◇Under his bare toes the floor felt gritty.他光着腳,覺得地板上有沙礫。➤broken, stubbed骨折的腳趾◇the pain of a stubbed toe腳趾骨折疼痛VERB + TOE➤stand on, step on, tread on (especially BrE) 踮腳;踩到腳趾;得罪◇She stood on her toes to kiss him.她踮起腳親他。◇Ouch! That was my toe you just trod on.哎喲!你剛才踩的是我的腳。◇She trod on a lot of toes when she joined the company. (figurative) 她進公司時得罪了很多人。➤stub腳趾不小心踢到▸➤break弄斷腳趾▸➤dip浸腳趾;涉足◇I dipped my toe in the river to test the temperature.我把腳趾伸進河裏試試水溫。◇So far they have only dipped their toe in the potentially vast computer market. (figurative) 迄今為止他們剛剛涉足電腦這個潛在的巨大市場。➤point用腳趾指▸➤curl捲曲腳趾▸➤wiggle扭動腳趾▸➤tap輕點腳趾◇She tapped her toes to the music.她隨着音樂輕點腳趾打着節拍。➤touch觸到腳趾◇Can you touch your toes (= while keeping your legs straight)?你的手能摸到腳趾嗎?TOE + VERB➤curl (oftenfigurative) 腳趾捲曲;使厭惡◇The man's broad smile made her toes curl (= made her feel uncomfortable).那個男人咧大嘴笑讓她感到不自在。TOE + NOUN➤injury腳趾受傷PREPOSITION➤between the/your toes腳趾間◇He had some kind of fungus between his toes.他有腳癬。➤on your toes踮着腳◇He moved lightly on his toes like a boxer.他像拳擊手一樣踮着腳輕盈移動。◇The threat of inspections kept us all on our toes (= made sure we kept everything up to standard and were ready). (figurative) 可能要來人視察,這讓我們保持着警覺。PHRASES➤from head to toe, from top to toe從頭到腳◇He gave himself a good scrub from head to toe.他把自己從頭到腳擦洗了個乾淨。➤the tips of your toes腳尖◇I stood on the tips of my toes to look through the window.我踮起雙腳朝窗外看。➤the toe of your boot, the toe of your shoe靴尖;鞋尖