Foothold

(noun.) a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing.

录入:门罗

• No time was to be lost in securing this foothold. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The New York of Newland Archer's day was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Spain was assailing Granada, the last foothold of the Moslems in western Europe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The second group lived in an age when the great middle class was struggling for a foothold in a new country. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The British were not slow to seize the foothold this insurrection gave them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A few small footholds presented themselves, and there was some indication of a ledge. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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