What better way than an innocuous LinkedIn invite to reconnect-and get a toehold in his private-equity network.

通过领英这种没有恶意的平台向他发出邀请，与其重新建立联系--然后在他的私募股权网络中站稳脚跟，没有比这更好的方式了。

We're getting a toehold on the alcohol business.

这是我们酒类生意的起点。

Had we not had the benefit of a greenhouse effect, the Earth might well have frozen over permanently, and life might never have gotten a toehold. But somehow life did.

要是我们没有受益于温室效应，地球很可能已经永久被冰雪覆盖。生命也许永远找不到一块立足之地。但是，生命以某种方式出现了。