摘要：表示开始从事某种新工作、新任务或新领域，通常与学习和探索有关；熟悉新情况;开始尝试做；涉猎；开始；着手；尝试一种以前没有做过的事

Get one's hands/feet wet

To try or experience something new or risky especially for the first time.

表示开始从事某种新工作、新任务或新领域，通常与学习和探索有关；熟悉新情况;开始尝试做；涉猎；开始；着手；尝试一种以前没有做过的事

如：

She decided to get her hands wet and try her hand at gardening.

她决定要从事园艺业。

It is not hard to dance once you get your feet wet.

跳舞其实并不难，一旦你体验一下就行。

You should get your feet wet and trying painting or dancing.

你应该涉猎一下绘画或舞蹈。

At that time she was a young actor, just getting his feet wet.

那时她还是个年轻演员，才初出茅庐。

I worked as a substitute teacher for a while, just to get my feet wet.

我做了一段时间代课老师，用来熟悉情况。

Of course he can’t do the job right. He’s hardly got his feet wet yet.

当然他不能把工作做好。他基本上不熟悉情况。

“Let's kick the shuttlecock and get your feet wet,” said Roy.

罗伊说：“让我们来踢毽子吧!由你开始。”

I’m looking forward to learning to drive. I can’t wait to get behind the steering wheel and get my feet wet.

我期待着学习驾驶，我等不及要开始开车了。

After graduation, his son wanted to get his feet wet in computer science field.

他的儿子毕业后，想尝试电脑科技方面的工作。

My mother wanna go to business. Just to get her feet wet.
我妈妈想下海做生意，只是想尝试一下。

I’ve only been at this job for a month, and I don’t have my feet wet yet.

我仅仅做了这份工作一个月，我还不是很熟悉新情况。

Tom changed his job ,he will get his feet wet in writing.

Tom 换了工作，他将开始尝试写作。

I'm confident that you'll be able to drive a stick shift—you just need to get your feet wet first.

我很有信心你可以开手动挡的车，你只是需要首先熟悉一下新情况。

My daughter decided to work on her MBA after she got her feet wet in business.

我女儿在商业上得到初次经验后，就决定攻读企管硕士。

I don't get paid for it but it's a chance to jump in and get my feet wet.

虽然没有工资，但是，这是我进入和开始熟悉新情况的好机会。

I don't know what my job entails. I'm still getting my feet wet.

我不太清楚自己的职责范围，我还在逐步熟悉的阶段。

Investors are encouraged to get their feet wet by buying just a few shares to begin with.

建议投资者开始可以通过买一点股票熟悉一下新情况。

来源：翅膀英语