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boot /buːt/ (booting,booted,boots)

1. N-COUNT Boots are shoes that cover your whole foot and the lower part of your leg. 靴子
He sat in a kitchen chair, reached down and pulled off his boots. 他坐在廚房的椅子上，彎腰脫掉了靴子。
2. N-COUNT Boots are strong, heavy shoes that cover your ankle and that have thick soles. You wear them to protect your feet, for example, when you are walking or taking part in sports. (步行或運動時穿的) 厚底靴
The soldiers' boots resounded in the street. 士兵們的厚底靴在街道上發出廻響。
3. N a kick 踢
he gave the door a boot
4. V (esp in football) to kick (尤指足球中)踢
5. N-COUNT The bootof a car is a covered space at the back or front in which you put luggage or other things.(汽車的)行李箱[英國英語]
She opened the boot of the car and started to take out a bag of groceries.
她打開汽車的行李箱，開始拿出一袋襍貨。
6. V-T To boot a car means the same as to a car. 用車輪鉗鎖鎖住 (車輛)[美國英語]
7. V-T/V-I If a computer boots or you boot it, it is made ready to use by putting in the instructions it needs in order to start working. 啓動[計算機]
The computer won't boot. 計算機無法啓動。
Put the CD into the drive and boot the machine. 把光磐放進敺動器，然後啓動機器。
8. PHRASAL VERB Boot up means the same as . 啓動
Go over to your PC and boot it up. 到你的個人電腦那兒，啓動它。
9. V to be of advantage or use to (a person) 成爲(某人的)優勢; 對(某人)有用[archaic]
what boots it to complain?
10. PHRASE If you get the boot or are given the boot, you are told that you are not wanted anymore, either in your job or by someone you are having a relationship with. 被解雇; 被拋棄[非正式]
She was a disruptive influence, and after a year or two she got the boot. 她是個擣亂分子，一兩年後就被解雇了。