footfall

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How to pronounce footfall in British English: 英 [ˈfʊtfɔ:l]word uk audio image

How to pronounce footfall in American English: 美 [ˈfʊtˌfɔl] word us audio image

  • Noun:
    the sound of a step of someone walking

单词词源

footfall (n.)
c. 1600, "the tread of the foot;" see foot (n.) + fall (n). Perhaps first in Shakespeare.

双语例句

1. As a flower , as a fire , as a hushed footfall
2. Jiamin : are you going to watch the footfall game on tv tomorrow evening , ben ?
3. Otherwise foreigners might win the fierce contest for footfall ( retail jargon for the number of shoppers ) .
4. Shops in high streets without sufficient " footfall " , however , will be among the losers .
5. Yet visits to shops ( other than those in out-of-town retail parks ) are still trending lower than last year , according to experian footfall , a market-research firm .

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