英语释义

• on foot; walking;

  "they went to the village afoot"

  "quail are hunted either afoot or on horseback"

• traveling by foot;

  "she was afoot when I saw her this morning"

• currently in progress;

  "there is mischief afoot"

  "plans are afoot"

  "preparations for the trial are underway"

片语

afoot peripatetic徒步的

an uprising is afoot篝火狐鸣

set afoot着手

afoot adv準备中

pedestrian行人；步行者

there is something afoot某事正在进行中

go afoot走路去

afoot t徒步的

afoot be in preparation在準备中

agoingad 在动着；在进行中

get afoot开始

in handad 在手头；在进行中；在控制中

英汉例句

• yet on the basis of this short stay in shahabpur more change is afoot in india’s villages than is commonly supposed. and much is positive.

  但就这几天对沙哈布普的观察来看，印度的村子应该会比预期发生更多的变化，且多数都是有利的。

• from the impact of cloud computing and mobile services, to clients’ desire to make their businesses more environmentally sustainable, projects are afoot to anticipate the future.

  从云计算影响和移动服务到想要使生意变得更可持续发展的客户愿望，一切都为预测未来在做準备。

• but plans are afoot to extend the idea into a number of new areas.

  但是将这一概念延伸入其他很多新领域的计划正在準备当中。

• while libya burns, there are serious discussions afoot in washington and europe about imposing an iraq-style 「no fly zone」 in libya, followed by possibly western military intervention.

  利比亚烈火燃烧之际，华盛顿和欧洲正在就有关实施伊拉克式「禁飞区」事宜进行认真的讨论，紧接着可以就是西方的军事干预。

• yet on the basis of this short stay in shahabpur more change is afoot in india’s villages than is commonly supposed.

  然而，根据这次在沙哈普尔短暂停留的印象，印度乡村悄然发生的变化比一般所想象中的多。

• now there’s a move afoot — driven, of course, by a major lobbying campaign — to offer an amnesty under which companies could move funds back while paying hardly any taxes.

  现在有一种动议——当然受到大的游说活动的鼓动——要提供一种赦免，在这一赦免下公司可以转回资金，但几乎不交纳任何税。

• in another throwback, plans are afoot to create a 「bad bank」 for dexia's worst assets.

  在另一次倒退中，正在着手计划为德夏银行最糟的资产创造坏银行的形象。

• the possibility that more than one assailant might have been involved and that a conspiracy might be afoot fueled unease.

  参与行兇的可能不止一人，而且阴谋是提前计划好的，这些推测都加深了民众的恐慌情绪。

• the same process is afoot today in afghanistan.

  同样的过程今天正在阿富汗进行。

• plans are afoot to create an asset-management company to absorb wounded banks’ bad assets.

  目前政府正计划建立一家资产管理公司，以吸收问题银行的不良资产。

相似词

ongoing仍在进行的；不断前进的；持续存在的

proceeding开始；继续做；行进（proceed的ing形式）

相反词

stopped停止的；停顿的