单词 | ankle-deep |
释义 | ankle-deep (once / 15823 pages) adj WORD FAMILY ankle-deep USAGE EXAMPLES“While I was up there ankle-deep in mud, it made me a little hot,” he said. Washington Times(Nov 09, 2016) We hack our way with machetes — at least, Alex and Rosa do — through dense jungle, slog through ankle-deep mud and wade across creeks and streams. Washington Post(Nov 03, 2016) After last year’s struggles saw fans slogging through ankle-deep mud, race organizers knew they needed some punch year to bring them back. Seattle Times(Oct 19, 2016) adj coming only to the ankle or knee Syn knee-deep shallow lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center |
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