| 释义 |
slow-footed, a.
[f. slow a.]
Slow of foot; that walks or goes slowly; slow-moving, slow-paced. Also transf.
1642H. More Song of Soul i. ii. 148 Although full loth I were Slow-footed eld the journey should command. 1711Shaftesbury Charact. (1737) II. 301 Ask not merely, why man is..slower-footed than the beasts. 1775Adair Hist. Amer. Ind. 133 He who feeds on venison is..swifter..than the man who lives on..the slow-footed tame cattle. 1873Morley Rousseau II. 135 A man who handles sets of complex facts is necessarily slow-footed. 1892Rider Haggard Nada 271 The pace of a regiment is the pace of its slowest-footed soldier. |