afoot

英 [əˈfʊt]

美 [əˈfʊt]

adj.  计划中; 进行中

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Collins.1 / BNC.19318 / COCA.17330

牛津词典

adj.

• 计划中；进行中
  being planned; happening
  1. There are plans afoot to increase taxation.
     正在拟订增税方案。
  2. Changes were afoot.
     各种变革正在进行之中。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 进行中的；正在发生的；酝酿中的
  If you say that a plan or scheme isafoot, it is already happening or being planned, but you do not know much about it.
  1. Everybody knew that something awful was afoot.
     大家都知道可怕的事近在眼前。

英英释义

adv

• on foot
  1. they went to the village afoot
  2. quail are hunted either afoot or on horseback

双语例句

• Everybody knew that something awful was afoot.
  大家都知道可怕的事近在眼前。
• Still at his heels she comes, and once afoot, is never turned aside.
  但是她跟住了他，一旦开始，便义无反顾了。
• There's a scheme afoot to put a motorway through the park.
  现在正酝酿着一个计划，要修一条穿过公园的高速公路。
• There is mischief afoot; plans are afoot; preparations for the trial are underway.
  正在搞恶作剧；计划正在执行；对实验的准备正在进行。
• Infelicitous circumstances; unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes-American Guide Series.
  悲惨的环境；不幸的商队，脱离了队伍徒步走在沼泽和藤丛之中&《美国导游丛书》。
• Something's afoot& the managers keep having secret meetings.
  有些事正在筹划之中&经理们不断地召开秘密会议。
• Favourable shifts in the underlying legal infrastructure are afoot.
  有利于基本的法律结构的转变正在进行中。
• Plans were afoot for an international conference in New York to celebrate 100 years of peace among English-speaking peoples.
  人们正计划在纽约举行国际大会，庆祝讲英语国家的人民实现100年的和平。
• His nature will be changed by the changes he has already set afoot.
  他的本性将随着他已经开始的变化而变化。
• But citizens and foreign investors need to know plans are afoot to bring the budget back into balance.
  但美国公民和外国投资者需要知道，让预算恢复平衡的计划正在准备中。