美國俚語大全:tiptoe around是什么意思?

tiptoe這個詞的意思是腳尖，用腳尖走。而tiptoe around主要有兩個意思：

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)對穆斯林這個決然不同的市場時總是小心翼翼。

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，他干脆說謊。

今天朋友在看美劇Gossip Girl的時候遇到了這個tiptoe around，順便分享一下這段對白：

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 一會兒我們在圖書館見吧 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... 兩個在戀愛當(dāng)中的藝術(shù)家，有時候我們會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。)