hotfoot

[US]/'hɒtfʊt/
[UK]/ˈhɑtˌfʊt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. 火速地,急匆匆地
vt.&vi. 急行疾走,快跑(到某處)
Word Forms
現在分詞hotfooting
過去式hotfooted
第三人稱單數hotfoots
過去分詞hotfooted

Example Sentences

hotfoot it out of town.

匆忙出城

he rushed hotfoot to the planning office to object.

他急匆匆地奔向規劃辦公室去抗議。

we hotfooted it after him.

我們在他後面疾跑。

People coming off work hotfooted it down the street.

下班的人在街上匆匆行走。

The children come running hotfoot when they hear tea is ready.

孩子們聽說茶點已準備好了,便趕緊跑過來。

Once the police arrived, we hotfooted it out of there.

警察一到,我們就急忙離開了那裏。

Like Bernard Shaw, he has tickled his readers' funny bone with a cultural hotfoot .

他和蕭伯納一樣,以文化覺醒來撩撥讀者的興趣。

Real-world Examples

I caught up with Anna, hotfoot from Somerset and also just back from covering the Nato summit.

我趕上了安娜, 她來自薩默塞特郡, 也剛從北約峰會回來。

Source: Financial Times Podcast

" No, but don't say it in front of a millionaire. He might think you were giving him the hotfoot" .

“不,但不要在百萬富翁面前說。他可能會認爲你是在惹他生氣” 。

Source: The Long Farewell (Part Two)

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