one false step and we would have fallen in the sea
只要一失足，我们就可能已经掉到海里去了。
Example sentencesExamples
All it takes is a false step, a bump, a push or even a momentary lapse of common sense to fall from safety and into the dark dangerous depths below.
Clements helped Stewart eliminate a false step he was taking with his left foot in his dropback that caused him to be late with some of his passes.
Adriana's heart carried her forward, under rock ledges where a false step would have thrown her a hundred feet into a nest of shale.
Back to the cliffs, where the geological verticality is a 300-foot issue, and where in places two false steps would have you plummeting to the rocks.
But here's a play that gets Jaworski's attention, when Palmer takes a false step with his left foot at the start of his dropback.
Synonyms
stumble, slip, misstep
1.1A careless or unwise act; a mistake.
失策的一步；错误的一着；出错
she made her first false step when she agreed to come back
Example sentencesExamples
The nature of professional publication is such that it is rare to find an article by a senior clinician about a personal voyage of intellectual discovery that includes the stumbling and false steps along the way.
One false step and you've lost a viewer, or a million of them.
Lord Justice Judge agreed and said: ‘The court was extremely critical of a whole series of false steps leading to conclusions of a statistical kind that were misleading.’
So much of the film's success lies on the shoulders of the two leads, and they never make a false step in their characterizations.
A false step along the way - including delay for any number of reasons, known and unknown - could well be fatal.
Definition of false step in US English:
false step
nounˌfôls ˈstep
1usually in singularA slip or stumble.
失脚，失足；绊倒
one false step and we would have fallen in the sea
只要一失足，我们就可能已经掉到海里去了。
Example sentencesExamples
All it takes is a false step, a bump, a push or even a momentary lapse of common sense to fall from safety and into the dark dangerous depths below.
Back to the cliffs, where the geological verticality is a 300-foot issue, and where in places two false steps would have you plummeting to the rocks.
But here's a play that gets Jaworski's attention, when Palmer takes a false step with his left foot at the start of his dropback.
Adriana's heart carried her forward, under rock ledges where a false step would have thrown her a hundred feet into a nest of shale.
Clements helped Stewart eliminate a false step he was taking with his left foot in his dropback that caused him to be late with some of his passes.
Synonyms
stumble, slip, misstep
1.1A careless or unwise act; a mistake.
失策的一步；错误的一着；出错
Example sentencesExamples
A false step along the way - including delay for any number of reasons, known and unknown - could well be fatal.
The nature of professional publication is such that it is rare to find an article by a senior clinician about a personal voyage of intellectual discovery that includes the stumbling and false steps along the way.
One false step and you've lost a viewer, or a million of them.
Lord Justice Judge agreed and said: ‘The court was extremely critical of a whole series of false steps leading to conclusions of a statistical kind that were misleading.’
So much of the film's success lies on the shoulders of the two leads, and they never make a false step in their characterizations.