walk
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /wɔːk/|/woːk/
美 /wɔk/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A trip made by walking.
— I take a walk every morning.
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A distance walked.
— It’s a long walk from my house to the library.
- An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
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A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
— The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.
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A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
— And then it appeared to the young man that he was walking his love up the grass walk of Heriotside, with the house close by him.
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A person's conduct or course in life.
— Men like Stuart who had no desire to extol Coleridge's virtues, and other witnesses quite as hostile, to whom a moral dereliction could hardly be a mortal offence, were loud in praise of the purity of his walk in life.
- A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
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An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
— The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone.
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
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An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
— Twenty Acres of Land well kept in a Plantain Walk, will afford a very considerable Support, as Plantains are as hearty a Food as Eddoes, and the Plantain Walk may be a Nursery for declining Slaves, as well as to fatten old Cattle when they are past Labour.
- A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
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Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
— And for the strongroom itself, he can tell us where to find the combination of the day. We had allowed four hours, Joe, but with this help, once you get us inside, it's a walk! I've been timing it.
- A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
动词 v.
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To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
— To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
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To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
— If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
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Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
— If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
- To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
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To travel (a distance) by walking.
— I walk two miles to school every day.
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To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
— I walk the dog every morning.
- To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- To reach base by being pitched four balls.
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Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
— If we don't bolt the washing machine down, it's going to walk across the room.
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To cause something to move in such a way.
— I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
- To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
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To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
— I walked the streets aimlessly.
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To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
— Still keeping his tail in the air, Red coaxed the “Airknocker” ahead and as we grasped his struts he slowly retarded the throttle. We walked the plane between two tiedown blocks and not until we had tied the struts did Red cut the switch.
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To leave, resign.
— If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
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To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
— The county had a successful defense only because the judge kept telling the jury at every chance that the cyclist should have walked his bicycle like a pedestrian.
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To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
— We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.
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To go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
— October 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached at Stamford, link I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
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To be in motion; to act; to move.
— her toung did walke / In fowle reproch.
- To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
- To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
- To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
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forwalk
tightrope-walk
walk alone
walk away from
walk away with
walk behind
walk down
walk in
walk into
walk off
walk on
walk on by
walk out
walk over
walk tall
walk through
amble
bolt
canter
circumambulate
crawl
cruise
creep
dash
dawdle
drag
flee
flounce
gambol
hike
hobble
hoof it
hurry
hustle
inch
jog
limp
make off
march
meander
mosey
parade
perambulate
peregrinate
plod
promenade
poke
pussyfoot
ramble
rush
sashay
saunter
shamble
scoot
shin
sidle
skedaddle
skulk
slink
slog
skip
skirr
stomp
stroll
strut
swagger
tiptoe
toddle
traipse
tread
tred
trek
trot
trudge
wade
wander
衍生词
dogwalk
frog-walk
management by walking about
management by walking around
perp-walk
walk about
walk all over
walk-alone
walk a mile in someone's shoes
walk and chew gum at the same time
walk around
walk around money
walk-around money
walk a straight line
walkathon
walk a tightrope
walk-away
walk away
walk back
walk back the cat
walk down the aisle
walker
walk good
walkies
walkie-talkie
walk-in
walk in circles
walk in on
walk in someone's shoes
walk in straight lines
walk it
walk it like one talks it
walk it off
walk like an Egyptian
Walkman
walk-off
walk off the job
walk off with
walk-on
walk on air
walk on broken glass
walk on eggshells
walk one's chalks
walk one's shots
walk-on girl
walk on one's lower lip
walk on sunshine
walk on water
walk out on
walk out with
walkover
walk-over
walk softly and carry a big stick
walk Spanish
walk the beat
walk the boards
walk the cat back
walk the chalk
walk the chalk line
walk the chalk mark
walk the dog
walk the floor
walk the gangplank
walk the hospitals
walk the line
walk the plank
walk the streets
walk the talk
walk the walk
walk-through
walk turkey
walk-up
walk with
walk on the wild side
airwalk
awe walk
birdwalk
boardwalk
bug-walk
cake walk
captain's walk
cock of the walk
coin walk
cradle walk
crawl before one can walk
Crip walk
directed walk
do you think you can walk
drunkard's walk
duck walk
elephant walk
fart walk
front walk
gravel-walk
honor walk
in a walk
Jericho walk
know how to walk before one can run
learn to walk before one can run
Lévy walk
monkey walk
power walk
privilege walk
public walk
race-walk
random walk
riverwalk
ropewalk
RP walk
run-walk
sheepwalk
sheep walk
sidewalk
slow-walk
spacewalk
Spanish walk
take a long walk off a short pier
take a long walk on a short pier
take a walk
take a walk on the wild side
tightrope walk
walk after lunch
walk cycle
walk in the park
walk in the snow
walk of fame
walk of life
walk of shame
walk policy
walk shorts
walkthrough
wall walk
widow's walk
wiki walk
zombie walk
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词源
词源 1
From Middle English walk, walke, walken, walkyn, wolken (“to roll, toss, or turn; to walk; to move; to be living; to beat or full; to perform”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move around; to revolve; to roll; to fluctuate; to discuss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse; to roll”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up, twist; to wrinkle”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to roll, toss, turn, wind; to walk, wander, wend; to full, trample”), *walkōną (“to roll about; to full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”).
Cognates
Cognate with Bavarian woikn (“to full, tan; to knead dough; to roll out dough”), Cimbrian balchan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Dutch zwalken (“to walk around”), German walken (“to full, tan, walk; to knead; to beat up”), Danish valke (“to full, walk, waulk”), Faroese válka (“make dirty; stir up dirt”), Swedish valka (“to full cloth, to waulk”); also Latin valgus (“bent out; bandy, bow-legged”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.
Cognates
Cognate with Bavarian woikn (“to full, tan; to knead dough; to roll out dough”), Cimbrian balchan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Dutch zwalken (“to walk around”), German walken (“to full, tan, walk; to knead; to beat up”), Danish valke (“to full, walk, waulk”), Faroese válka (“make dirty; stir up dirt”), Swedish valka (“to full cloth, to waulk”); also Latin valgus (“bent out; bandy, bow-legged”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.
词源 2
From Middle English walc, walk, walke, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“rolling, turning; motion, surging”), from Proto-Germanic *walką.
Cognate with Icelandic volk (“difficulty, hardship, trouble”).
Cognate with Icelandic volk (“difficulty, hardship, trouble”).
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