1. to avoid talking about (something) to talk about (something) only in an indirect way They tiptoed around the subject of her poor health.
tiptoe around 例句
英汉例句
When we visited my grandparents in their Manhattan apartment, I would tiptoe around Grandpa, fearful of brushing against him and drawing his ire.
当我们访问祖父母位于曼哈顿的寓所时,我会紧紧盯着爷爷,小心翼翼,生怕惹他老人家生气。
They have to tiptoe around potential conflicts of interest, avoiding taking clients who compete with their employer or their employer「s clients, for example.
他们必须小益沖突,例如,他们要避免吸引与雇主竞争的客户或雇主的客户。
Read it and you」ll understand how we got here, why Wall Street will keep recreating these disasters and how you can tiptoe around the worst of the damage.
You tiptoe around them on the way to the kitchen to make some breakfast.
我小心翼翼绕过他们,来到厨房做早餐。
It「s just that he is often a bit too eager to tiptoe around them.
这仅仅是因为,作者往往太过急切,没有小心翼翼绕过他们。
We wonder if Obama actually believes that he has to tiptoe around the bond vigilantes.
我们担心奥巴马是不是真的认为他要去蹑手蹑脚地面对债务警卫员们。
Dillon, however, seems to tiptoe around the issue, as if afraid either to offer his own thesis or to establish his own workable definition of hypochondria.
然而Dillon却似乎在小心回避这个问题,不愿以自己的研究和想法来为忧郁癥下定义。
We」ve run Skimlinks together for the past eight years, and the foundation of friendship means we never have to tiptoe around issues.