學(xué)俚語記單詞：tiptoe around

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tiptoe這個(gè)詞的意思是腳尖，用腳尖走,。而tiptoe around主要有兩個(gè)意思：
1.做某事小心翼翼的 (to act very cautiously about something )
例句：
Yet to this day they tend to tiptoe around Muslims as a distinct market segment.
而今他們應(yīng)對(duì)**這個(gè)決然不同的市場時(shí)總是小心翼翼,。
2. 避免談?wù)摿钊瞬豢斓幕蛘哂袪幾h的事情(to avoid speaking about a painful or controversial issue)
例句：
In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt tried to tiptoe around the war question and when that didn't wash, he simply lied about it.
1940年，羅斯福想悄悄地規(guī)避戰(zhàn)爭問題,。當(dāng)他這樣做瞞不了人時(shí),，他干脆說謊。
今天朋友在看美劇Gossip Girl的時(shí)候遇到了這個(gè)tiptoe around,，順便分享一下這段對(duì)白：
Vanessa: I gotta go. So I will see you later at the library, and I'm sorry about before with the Tisch catalog.
(我得走了 一會(huì)兒我們?cè)趫D書館見吧 還有之前Tisch項(xiàng)目的事情, 我很抱歉,。)
Dan: It's fine.
(沒什么)
Vanessa: Dan, I don't know how to do this. We've been tiptoeing around each other for days.
(Dan 我不知道該怎么辦 這幾天我們都在回避著彼此。)
Dan: Look, we're... we're two artists in a relationship,and sometimes we're gonna be competing for the same things,So,
all right, we're... we're... we're smart people.
(聽著,， 我們是... 兩個(gè)在戀愛當(dāng)中的藝術(shù)家,，有時(shí)候我們會(huì)為了某一件事情而共同競爭，所以沒什么的 ,，我們是... 我們是聰明人,。)