名词

1. 脚步声;足迹
A footstep is the sound or mark that is made by someone walking each time their foot touches the ground.

2. 效仿;步…后尘
If you follow in someone's footsteps, you do the same things as they did earlier.

1. the act of taking a step in walking

2. the sound of a step of someone walking

e.g. he heard footsteps on the porch

Synonym: footfallstep

3. the distance covered by a step

e.g. he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig

Synonym: pacestepstride