腳下真的踩住
這一族就是核心畫面本身，沒有任何比喻。
noun · B2
A firm hold with your feet when you are standing or moving on ground that is slippery, loose, steep, or moving under you.
站穩的腳步；腳下的抓地
核心畫面
You can think of footing as the moment a foot presses down and the ground holds it. Everything the word does starts there. The ground can be a wet rock, and then footing is the grip that keeps you up. The ground can be a new job or a hard month, and then footing is the steady feeling of coping. The ground can be the money and rules a business runs on, and then footing is what the business stands on. And under a real wall, the footing is the wide slab that takes the weight. One picture, four kinds of ground.
footing 可以想成「腳踩下去，地把你接住」的那一瞬間。這個字的每個用法都從這裡長出來。地面可以是濕掉的石頭，那…更多收起
footing 可以想成「腳踩下去，地把你接住」的那一瞬間。這個字的每個用法都從這裡長出來。地面可以是濕掉的石頭，那 footing 就是讓你不摔倒的抓地。地面也可以是新工作或難熬的一個月，那 footing 就是慢慢穩住的感覺。地面還可以是一間公司靠的錢和規則，那 footing 就是它站在什麼上面。至於真的一道牆，底下那塊寬寬的底座也叫 footing。同一個畫面，四種不同的地。From the word’s history
From Middle English fotyng, that is foot plus -ing: the act or result of setting a foot down.
來自中古英語 fotyng，也就是 foot（腳）加上 -ing。字面上是「把腳踩下去」這個動作或它的結果，正好對上今天所有用法共有的那個畫面。
Wiktionary entry for footing, packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1000913990 (etymology_text: From Middle English fotyng; equivalent to foot + -ing).
Three branches
人站不站得穩
把腳下那塊地換成生活：新環境、新工作、一個行業。人也會滑倒，也會站住。
noun · B2
A steady, in-control feeling in a new or hard situation — knowing what you are doing and not being thrown by it.
穩住；上軌道的感覺
底下承重的那塊
視線從腳往下移到地本身：不再問誰站著，而是問底下那塊撐住重量的東西夠不夠穩。
noun · C1
The wide solid base of concrete, stone, or brick built under a wall, a column, or a whole building, which spreads its weight onto the ground and holds it in place.
基腳；建築物的底座
原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
footingnoun/ˈfʊtɪŋ/
- 1
A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
- In ascents, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.
- 2
A standing; position; established place; foothold.
- As soon, however, as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his manner […] made him a favorite.
- While the California economy maintains its powerhouse status[…] the state’s most-powerful sectors[…]have struggled to keep their footing, pummeled by high interest rates, investor skittishness, labor strife and other turmoil.
- 3
A relative condition; state.
- [L]ived on a footing of equality with nobles.
- 4
datedA tread; step; especially, a measured tread.
- Hark, I hear the footing of a man.
- 5
rareA footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.
- The Monster swift as word, that from her went, Went forth in hast, and did her footing trace[…].
- A man must doe as some wilde beasts, which at the entrance of their caves, will have no manner of footing seene.
- 6
Stability or balance when standing on one's feet.
- He lost his footing and fell down.
- It was difficult to keep my footing on the ship during the storm.
- 7
Mental stability or balance.
- It's a lot for anybody to go through. But, while the others took weeks - hell, even months - to get used to everything, myself included, you found your footing in a matter of days.
- 8
The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
- The auditing of the accounts, when the defendant was present, was nothing more than the examinings of the footings of the bookkeeper.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
- 9
The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot
- the footing of a stocking
- 10
Foundation or basis for further advancement or development.
- The subsidy gives the organization a firm footing.
- 11
A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
- 12
The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
- 13
architectureengineeringnatural-sciencesThe thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
- 14
accountingbusinessfinanceA double-check of the numbers vertically.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。