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汤姆总是裹足不前。Tom always gets cold feet.

你的臭钱，那是不能让我裹足不前的。All your money won't stop me.

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对应尽的责任我决不会裹足不前。From a just responsibility I will never shrink.

这里污秽不堪，除非有事，外人是裹足不前的。The filth here deters all but the invited guest.

许多组织仍裹足不前。Many organizations are still dragging their feet on it.

基础语法知识的薄弱导致了英语学习的裹足不前。Negligence of English grammar teaching becomes a bottle-neck of English-learning.

他们说，银行的坏账层出不穷，但金融系统的改革却裹足不前。Too many bad loans were made, they say. Financial reform didn't come fast enough.

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连城道地皮的问题，或许是一�发展商裹足不前的表面原因。On the face of it, the problems the lot may pose may have caused developers to baulk.

企业很少会因发展太快而一败涂地，它们倒是经常会因为裹足不前而寿终正寝。Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly".

但是要实现这个目标要求同时开征新的物业税，却让政府裹足不前。But calls for this to be achieved with a new property tax have put the government in a bind.

实际上，它受到政治上的恐吓，在经济停滞面前裹足不前。In effect, it has been politically intimidated into standing by while the economy stagnates.

当示威活动蔓延到埃及，行政管理似乎又一次裹足不前了。And the administration appeared caught flat-footed again when demonstrations spread to Egypt.

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阿里从来都不认为运动员可以裹足不前，他不断进取，成为第一位真正意义上的全球体育明星。Ali discredited forever the idea of the quiescent athlete, and he was the first truly global sports star.

随着欧洲衰退及美国的裹足不前，亚洲的潜能及断层将更明显的显现。As Europe declines and the U.S. stagnates, Asia’s potential and its fault lines become more clearly defined.

报纸的问题在于他们沉溺于旧模式裹足不前，它们的理念是每份报纸都要报道所有的新闻。The problem with newspapers is that they're stuck on the old model, where every newspaper covers everything.

今天，知道世界上其他国家的人们都心情抑郁之时，裹足不前的日本似乎很满足。Today, the hemmed-in Japanese seem satisfied with the knowledge that everyone around them is equally unhappy.

菲律宾把太多的妇女送出国门做家庭女佣，她们把钱寄回国内支持一个裹足不前的经济。The Philippines sends all too many of them abroad as domestics to ship money home and support an inefficient economy.

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这种人可能想使书籍真地为其所用，但因错误地过分关注书籍的外观而裹足不前。This person would probably like to make books his own, but is restrained by a false respect for their physical appearance.

印度已经很大程度上成功为艾滋病摘掉了耻辱的帽子，皮拉伊指出，但对精神病还裹足不前。India has largely succeeded in destigmatizing HIV and AIDS, she points out, but it hasn't done the same for mental illness.

我们认为圣骑士那些强力的防御技能已经成为一个使得惩戒圣骑士们在竞技场里裹足不前的原因了。We think the powerful paladin defenses have been one of the things holding Retribution paladins back, especially in Arenas.