afoot

afoot

美 [əˈfʊt] 　英 [ə'fʊt]

• adv.步行；活动中
• adj.计划中；进行中
• 网络徒步；在准备中；在进行中

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It was then that she realised that something sinister was afoot as she could not access her account because her password had been changed.

因为密码已经被改动，无法进入自己的帐户，她才意识到有人对自己的手机做了手脚。

The possibility that more than one assailant might have been involved and that a conspiracy might be afoot fueled unease.

参与行凶的可能不止一人，而且阴谋是提前计划好的，这些推测都加深了民众的恐慌情绪。

Either he was not ready to reveal what was afoot, or he did not know.

他要么没准备好公开现状，要么对其全不知情。

But regardless of what actually is afoot, from a number of angles, HSBC would be better off moving back to its historical roots in Asia.

但不管其实际打算是什么，从多个角度来看，汇丰搬回它在亚洲的原来的根据地将使其获益匪浅。

The plane gave no warning either over the radio to air-traffic controllers or to its passengers that trouble was afoot.

飞机降落之前机组人员并没有通过无线电通知交通管理中心和乘客，提醒人们危险迫在眉睫。

When a man starts trying to shtup his way out of a midlife crisis, you know there's trouble afoot.

如果一个男人试图绕开而不是正面中年危机，那么他就有麻烦了。

Mr Campanale says current moves in Asia do not add up to a managed fund explosion, but something is afoot.

Campanale表示，眼下亚洲的这些举措还不至于导致管理基金的爆炸式增长，但一些事情已在酝酿之中。

He was lightly afoot again, turned and waved his cap in a bravado, and was out of sight next moment in the margin of the wood.

接着他又轻巧地站了起来，转过身子，示威似的挥着帽子，一下子就在森林的边缘上消失了。

Instead, he was shooed away by the implacable clone troopers, who told him a Jedi rebellion was afoot.

但那些态度不友好的克隆人士兵告诉他绝地正在进行叛乱，然后赶他离开。

Methinks it were but poor courtesy, and cold regard to Holy Church to leave him afoot here in the forest.

要是我们把他留在森林里，又无马可骑，那将是对神圣教会不礼貌的冷漠表现。

A new power was afoot, that of the street, constituting a further threat to the dictatorship of the masters of couture s.

一个新的权力也在悄然进行，该街道，构成进一步威胁的库蒂尔的主人专政。

You know that something is afoot when an unknown group on an unknown label suddenly start making noises on the Billboard Gospel charts.

你知道什么是在进行中时，标签上的一个未知的未知组突然开始做了Billboard排行榜福音的声音。

If there's any mischief afoot, George is sure to be in at it.

哪里在搞恶作剧，哪里就必然少不了乔治。

So , today I'm back just to show you a few things , to show you, in fact, that there is an open data movement afoot, now, around the world .

所以，今天我回来向你们展示几个事例，事实上，现在在世界各地，公开数据资料的运动正在兴起。

It became clear to me early on that there was an orthodoxy afoot here.

在很早的时候我就认识到这里有一种文学正统。

One of the strangest miscalculations afoot in the land is a bias against career changers.

最奇怪的事情之一就是许多人对于转行的人有偏见。

If there any mischief afoot , he is sure to be in at it.

要是有什么地方有调皮捣蛋的事，肯定有他的份。

Moves are afoot to oust them from power, bring their injurious actions into the light of public scrutiny, and themselves to justice.

运动正致力于将他们从权力之椅上拉下来，将他们的为害行动置于大众的监督之下，并给运动拥护者们自己带来正义。

Across the Taiwan Strait a second set of historically profound changes is afoot.

海峡对面的中国大陆正在发生着第二轮影响深刻的巨变。

Following the financial crisis, efforts are afoot to make it harder for bad bosses to walk away with a fortune.

随着金融危机的到来，人们在不断努力，以使糟糕的老板越发难以在离职时带走大量财富。

Changes were afoot.

各种变革正在进行之中。

Mr Rouge says that work is also afoot to update the munitions list, which contains the set of military technologies that must be protected.

罗格说这些工作会是更新军需品名单的前奏，它包含了一系列必须受到保护的军事技术。

But now there is a controversial movement afoot to allow people to carry their handguns openly, as the cowboys used to do.

可现在一个颇具争议的运动正酝酿着让人们像过去的牛仔一样，可以公开地携带他们的手枪。

Some also say they see changes afoot among the Minangkabau that may be weakening the adat system.

有一些人也说，他们看到了米南卡堡人中发生的变化，这种变化正在削弱adat体系。

And plans are afoot to hold a second international conference early next year to further explore global corruption trends .

明年初我们将会再接再厉举办第二届研讨会，与各国代表探讨最新贪污趋势。

If there is any mischief afoot, he is sure to be in at it.

要有什么调皮捣蛋的事，肯定有他的份。

The early policies of the Hatoyama government have confirmed the impression that something is afoot.

鸠山政府的早期政策，证实了人们的感觉：即某些事情正在酝酿之中。

Taken as a whole, it's increasingly clear that there are new business models afoot that are just now being well understood.

作为一个整体，它变得日益清晰，并且有一种新的、很容易去理解的商务模型正在进行。

ONE sign that change is afoot in countries ruled by despots is the appearance of murals and cartoons ridiculing them.

那些独裁专制国家正在悄然发生着一些变化，即壁画和卡通都在嘲弄着那些独裁者。

But plans are afoot to extend the idea into a number of new areas.

但是将这一概念延伸入其他很多新领域的计划正在准备当中。

As he paid off old clients with money from new ones, the press scented criminal mischief afoot.

在他用新帐来偿还旧账的时候，媒体察觉到了一丝犯罪的痕迹。

I thought he was moody, but would find out years later that something entirely more disturbing was afoot, something beyond his control.

我以为他是个情绪化的人，但数年以后，才发现更令人头痛的事就要发生，而且是他无法控制的事。

And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.

我们先上船开往亚朔去，意思要在那里接保罗。因为他是这样安排的，他自己打算要步行。

I hear there's something afoot about changing the management structure of the company.

我听说改变公司管理部门结构计划在部署之中。

AMID the meadows, hedgerows and shady habitats of the great-crested newt, the battle for Chilmington Green is afoot.

在草地、灌木篱墙还有成荫的大冠毛蝾螈的栖息地，正在进行着为邱明顿格林村而战的斗争。

But thanks to high oil prices and revolutionary solidarity, plans are now afoot to refurbish the rundown facilities and restock the zoo.

但是，得益于高油价和革命团结精神，重新整修和充实动物园的计划正在进行中。

When expectations of carbon markets were higher, plans were afoot for bonds offering a mixture of financial returns and carbon credits.

那时对碳市场的期望更高，酝酿中的计划是债券提供一个经济回报和碳信用的混合物。

a reform movement in journalism is afoot in newsrooms and boardrooms across the country.

在新闻改革运动正酝酿在新闻和全国会议室。

It's a natural reaction not to want to be in large groups when there is an easily transmittable disease afoot.

不希望自己置身于一个在进行中很容易传播疾病的大群体是一个正常的反应。

There are modest steps afoot to encourage central banks in Asia and further afield to hold renminbi in their foreign exchange reserves.

中国已开始采取一些力度不大的措施，旨在鼓励亚洲及其它地区的央行把人民币作为一种外汇储备货币。

Though some movement is afoot in Congress to make this change, Volcker's arguments are largely falling on deaf ears in Washington.

虽然国会方面已经有所举动进行改革，但华盛顿方面对沃尔克的观点仍然置若罔闻。