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語源

sure +‎ footed

形容詞

surefooted (comparative more surefooted, superlative most surefooted)

1. Walking steadily, without stumbling; capable of finding good footing.
   • 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, Letter XX, [1]

     The mules of Piedmont are exceeding strong and hardy. […] They are the only carriage that can be used in crossing the mountains, being very sure-footed: and it is observed that in choosing their steps, they always march upon the brink of the precipice.

   • 1997, Emma Donoghue, "The Tale of the Needle" in Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, New York: HarperCollins, p. 169,

     For many years I didn't learn to walk, because I was carried everywhere—not by my parents, who had grown frail, but by the most sure-footed of the servants.

2. Confident and capable.
   • 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 320:

     Her performance was described as "stunning, surefooted, breathtaking."

参照

• “sure-footed” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.