shoe-leather
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈʃuːˌlɛðə/
美 /ˈʃuːˌlɛðɚ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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Leather that is used to make shoes.
— Outside of patent leathers and specialties, I know of no other types of shoe leathers which are commanding replacement costs today.
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Leather from which shoes are made that is worn out through walking.
— In old times, if a Coniston peasant had any business at Ulverstone, he walked to Ulverstone; spent nothing but shoe-leather on the road, drank at the streams, and if he spent a couple of batz when he got to Ulverstone, "it was the end of the world." But now, he would never think of doing such a thing! He first walks three miles in a contrary direction, to a railroad station, and then travels by railroad twenty-four miles to Ulverstone, paying two shillings fare.
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The sweat of one's brow; effort; investigatory effort.
— They expended a lot of shoe-leather in hunting down every lead.
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Tough meat, especially cheap meat.
— The school certainly wasn't breaking the bank by feeding us — when it wasn't gruel it was shoe-leather.
形容词 adj.
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Basic, old-fashioned or traditional; specifically (journalism) shoe-leather journalism or shoe-leather reporting: journalism involving walking from place to place observing things and speaking to people, rather than sitting indoors at a desk.
— When we set out to produce the site full time, everything we did went on the site, but the reporting for the site hasn't changed. I don't think it ever will. It's basic shoe leather reporting, hunting down sources and documents and confirming authenticity.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From shoe + leather.
词源 2
From shoe + leather.
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