treading water 踩水_口语学习技巧

treading water 踩水

文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2021-12-24 08:21 字体： [大中小]　进入论坛

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当你在 treading water 时，这就是指你处于停滞阶段，没有发展。

例句

I feel like I'm treading water at work. I feel like I'm never going to get a promotion¹.

I'm not enjoying this degree course any more. I'm just treading water.

请注意

另一个短语 tread on someone's toes 的书面意思是踩到了别人的脚趾头，指干涉别人的事情，得罪别人。

Alan keeps treading on my toes and doing the rota when it's supposed to be part of my job.

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1 promotion
n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传
参考例句：
The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。 The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。