on the hoof
基本解释
- 活着的，未屠宰；事先无准备地
英汉例句
- Critics accuse Mr Zapatero of dictating short-term solutions on the hoof, rather than tackling deeper ills.
评论家指责萨帕特罗先生轻率的出台短期解决方案，而非处理更深层的弊端。 - The institutional arrangements for the euro are now in flux, with Europe scrambling to invent emergency backstop measures on the hoof.
欧元的制度安排 处于变化之中，欧洲正在急急忙忙、手忙脚乱地推出各种应急担保措施。 - Yet upland farmers, especially in the Carolina and Virginia, raised livestock for commercial sale and exported meat, either on the hoof or in cured form, in quantity to other colonies.
而高地的农民，尤其在卡罗来纳和弗吉尼亚，饲养牲畜供商业性销售以及出口生鲜或熏制的肉食，大批运往其它殖民地。 - Canada had only six big meat packers—and too much meat on the hoof.
ECONOMIST: Canada - The film has punch, but it never really conveys the delicious, redeeming sense that life can be lived on the hoof.
NEWYORKER: Chicago - It is difficult, though, to push through economic reform in recipient countries if the impression is of policy made on the hoof.
ECONOMIST: Calling the wrong shots?
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- ranking on the hoof 也提出了一个在线排列
- Pork On The Hoof 毛猪
- Beef on the hoof 尚未屠宰的牛;供宰牛
- So On The Hoof 这样活着
- bigger on the hoof 长的比较高大
短语
英英字典
- If you do something on the hoof, you do it while you are moving about or doing something else, often without giving it the attention it deserves.