(noun.) a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on.
(verb.) help oneself, often through improvised means.
整理:塔尼娅
双语例句
Yet there is nothing strange or particularly disheartening about this commonplace observation: to expect anything else is to hope that a nation will lift itself by its own bootstraps. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.