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foot the bill
固定搭配，意为‘付账、承担费用’。
The company footed the bill for the entire team.
公司支付了整个团队的账单。
支付；付账
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支付；付账
to pay for something, especially a bill
The company footed the bill for the entire team.
公司支付了整个团队的账单。
为某事付款
pay for something
步行,走
walk
把一列数字相加
add a column of numbers
foot
Base
原形
foots
3rd person
第三人称单数
footing
-ing
现在分词
footed
Past
过去式
footed
Past participle
过去分词
She foots the bill.
她付账单。
He footed the bill yesterday.
他昨天付了账单。
They have footed the bill.
他们已经付了账单。
foot作为动词表示“支付（账单）”或“步行”。
He footed the bill for our vacation.
他支付了我们的度假费用。
We footed it through the woods.
我们步行穿过了树林。
She footed her way up the steep hill.
她艰难地步行爬上陡峭的山丘。
固定搭配，意为‘付账、承担费用’。
The company footed the bill for the entire team.
公司支付了整个团队的账单。
非正式表达，意为‘步行’或‘跳舞’。
We missed the last bus and had to foot it home.
我们错过了末班车，只好步行回家。
Not this
I footed to the station.
Use this
I footed it to the station.
动词foot表示‘步行’时，在英语中是不及物动词，必须后接it或反身代词作为宾语，不能直接跟介词短语。
Not this
I will foot the dinner.
Use this
I will foot the bill for dinner.
动词foot表示‘支付’时，必须后接具体的费用（如the bill, the cost）作为宾语，不能直接接事件或物品。
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付账；买单
The company footed the bill for the training.
公司为培训付了账。
步行；走着去
We missed the bus, so we had to foot it.
我们错过了公交车，所以只好步行。
把一列数字相加
The accountant footed the column of expenses.
会计把费用一栏的数字加了起来。
承担费用；付款
The company had to foot the bill for the damage.
公司不得不承担损坏的赔偿费用。
进入；踏足
He hasn't set foot in that restaurant for years.
他已经多年没踏进那家餐馆了。
坚决反对；采取坚定立场
She finally put her foot down and refused to work overtime.
她终于坚决反对，拒绝加班。
轻捷地在这儿来回跳舞吧；可爱的精灵们，请一同应和歌声。
In Shakespeare's The Tempest (Act 1, Scene 2), Ariel sings: "Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear."
在莎士比亚《暴风雨》第一幕第二场中，爱丽儿唱道：“轻捷地在这儿来回跳舞吧；可爱的精灵们，请一同应和歌声。”
发短 /ʊ/ 音 (如 good, book)
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记动词foot：脚(foot)走路→步行；foot the bill联想用脚踩住账单→付款；一列数字像脚印排成一列→加总。
语域：mixed 常见场景：paying for something、walking、adding a column of numbers 作动词时，“foot”的不同含义语域不同：付账（foot the bill）在口语中较常见；步行（foot it）较正式或带文学色彩；把数字加总（foot up）多用于会计或算术语境。通常应根据搭配和场景选择，不能一概而论。
作动词时，常见于短语如'foot the bill'（付账），及物或不及物。
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