Someone with both feet on the ground may not be as open and easy to deal with as someone who is down to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish, Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.

然后，纵身一跳，他两脚先伸出去，在空中乱踢乱舞，于是飕的一声，降落到地面。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Then you remember that you got shin guards down to your feet; you have this breastplate.

还记得我刚才说的腿上的护胫吗,还有胸甲

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

She held back her skirts and turned her feet one way and her head another way as she looked down at the shiny, pointed boots.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

What that is, is an organ pipe of the type of organ that we have over in Woolsey Hall, thirty-two feet tall, this gigantic sound of down there so that's what he's trying to set up.

这是一种管风琴,梧希音乐厅就有,三十二英尺高,巨大浑厚的低音,正是施特劳斯努力展现的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The person who is down to earth usually has both feet on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

He had done a terrible thing and there he stood forever with his feet in the water below, and above him a tree with grapes hanging down, and dying of thirst.

他做了坏事,被惩罚永远站在水中,头上是一棵挂满葡萄的葡萄树,他口渴异常

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

When we have both our feet firmly on the ground, and when we are down to earth we do not have our noses in the air.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

And the next minute you would see that frog dancing in the air and then come down all on his feet and all right, like a cat.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Down two and a half. Kicking up some dust. Thirty feet.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

The snow was packed down for many feet.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Most residents were sleeping when the earthen dam collapsed, sending 70 million cubic feet of water crashed down on their homes.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

"I was saved only by a few feet and about a second going down an embankment and smashing into a brick wall."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04