tiptoe這個詞的意思是腳尖，用腳尖走。而tiptoe around主要有兩個意思：

1.做某事小心翼翼的 （to act very cautiously about something )

例句：

Yet to this day they tend to tiptoe around Muslims as a distinct market segment.

而今他們應對穆斯林這個決然不同的市場時總是小心翼翼。

2. 避免談論令人不快的或者有爭議的事情(to avoid speaking about a painful or controversial issue)

例句：

In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt tried to tiptoe around the war question and when that didn't wash, he simply lied about it.

1940年，羅斯福想悄悄地規避戰爭問題。當他這樣做瞞不了人時，他干脆說謊。

今天朋友在看美劇Gossip Girl的時候遇到了這個tiptoe around，順便分享一下這段對白：

Vanessa: I gotta go. So I will see you later at the library, and I'm sorry about before with the Tisch catalog.

（我得走了 一會兒我們在圖書館見吧 還有之前Tisch項目的事情, 我很抱歉。）

Dan: It's fine.

（沒什么）

Vanessa: Dan, I don't know how to do this. We've been tiptoeing around each other for days.

（Dan 我不知道該怎么辦 這幾天我們都在回避著彼此。）

Dan: Look, we're... we're two artists in a relationship,and sometimes we're gonna be competing for the same things,So,

all right, we're... we're... we're smart people.

（聽著， 我們是... 兩個在戀愛當中的藝術家，有時候我們會為了某一件事情而共同競爭，所以沒什么的 ，我們是... 我們是聰明人。）