The rock was slippery as a ball, and they had to crawl rather than climb.
岩石滑得像个球，他们无法爬行，只能匍匐前进。
He is a slippery customer, and should be carefully watched.
他可是个狡猾的主顾，得小心看着他。
She tried to get a purchase on the slippery rock.
她设法抓牢光滑的岩石。
Don't believe what he says—he's a slippery customer.
他说什么你可别信—他是个滑头。
The legs, which are slightly curved with tiny hooks on the tips of their feet to provide enough friction to enable movement in a slippery environment.
它们的腿有点弯曲，脚尖上有小钩，提供足够的摩擦力，使它们能在湿滑的环境中活动。
Alas, leadership is a slippery subject.
唉，领导力是一个难以捉摸的话题。
The Purdue team plans to do this next, making sure to create a slippery surface that will stop the nanoparticles from sticking to living cells as they move through the channels.
珀杜研究小组计划下一步进行相关实施，但要保证创造一个光滑的表面，这样可以阻止纳米颗粒与活体细胞在移动过程中黏在一起。
A mouthful of seal flesh has little to recommend it, unless you are drawn to a slippery, dark, lamb-like meat that tastes as if it had been left to stew in a dirty aquarium.
满口的海豹肉并不值得向你推荐，除非你喜欢那又滑又黑，像羊羔一样的肉，那尝起来就像是被养在肮脏鱼缸里的东西。
It snowed yesterday, so the alley was very slippery. A layer of thickice was frozen on the platform of the well.
昨天刚刚下过雪，小路非常滑，井台上还冻了厚厚的一层冰。
Well, if fighting crowds to shop, dragging bags stuffed with enough food to cause a hernia, and wrestling a slippery dead bird is so much fun, why don’t men do it?
在人群中挤着去买东西，把足以吃得胀气的那么多食物袋子拖回家，并且还要对付那只滑溜溜的死鸟，要是这一切都很有趣的话，那么男人为什么不去做呢？
The New York of Newland Archer's day was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained.
在纽兰·阿切尔那个时代，纽约的上流社会还是个滑溜溜的小金字塔，人们很难在上面开凿裂缝，找到立足点。
Washington's scapegoating of China could take the world to the brink of a very slippery slope.
华盛顿方面找中国作替罪羊，可能会把世界推向灾难性下滑的边缘。
This has prompted fury, lawsuits and talk of a slippery slope.
这些引起愤怒，诉讼以及对“滑坡”的讨论。
She's a slippery little bitch, isn't she?
她真是个狡猾的小贱人，不是么？
I realize that there are different views of morality and we could go down a very slippery slope discussing them. So, decide upon what you consider "moral duty and obligation" before reading further.
我知道对道德的看法有各种不同的看法，在讨论时我们有可能朝着一个急剧下滑的方向进行，因此要依靠我们对道德责任和道德义务的理解来继续阅读。
At the bottom of each slippery-sided leaf is a pool of water into which unlucky insects fall and drown.
猪笼草每个滑面叶子的底部都是一个水池，倒霉的昆虫落进去就会被淹死。
All the technologies I present here are standards, although that word is itself a bit slippery.
这里介绍的所有技术都是标准，尽管这个词本身就有点捉摸不定。
Culture is a slippery concept, but it matters.
文化是个难以把握的概念，但它重要。
Okay slippery slope fallacy. This is not a fallacy of ambiguity.
斜坡谬论，这不是一个关于歧义的谬论。
Tarantulas shoot silk from "spigots" in their feet to climb slippery surfaces, a new study says.
一项新研究发现，狼蛛从足部“阀门”处射丝以在平滑的表面爬行。
Although sometimes - I mean one way of avoiding a slippery slope is by defining something. you have to use slippery slope sometimes don't we?
尽管有时候-，有一种避免斜坡谬论的方法是，定义一些东西，你有时要用到斜坡谬论，难道不是吗？
And it would require the Fed to have a lot of confidence in its estimate of the natural unemployment rate, a notoriously slippery thing to measure.
而且这也要求美联储对于它所估计的自然失业率数值有足够的信心——这是在测量众所周知的不稳定的数值。
Is a very slippery word in English.
这是英语中很容易犯错的词。
If they dined or swam or danced together, southern white men feared, they were on a slippery slope towards sleeping together.
如果他们一起进餐，游泳或者跳舞，白人男性就会表现的极为不安，害怕他们有睡在一起的危险。
Given everything that happened, rain at the start, the safety car, the switch to slick tyres when the track was still very slippery - we did a great job.
发生了那么多的事情，开始阶段的雨，安全车，在赛道还很湿滑时换上软胎——但我们还是干的非常好。
Then the pair carried the body up the pitcher walls, an equally tough job because the surface is slippery, thanks to a flaky wax that helps the pitchers entrap their prey.
然后这对蚂蚁把尸体拖到植物壁上，这是一项艰巨的工程，因为表面真是太滑了，都是因为植物分泌蜡以防食物被拖走。
The more you procrastinate, the easier it will be in future. It's a slippery slope.
你现在拖延，将来可就够你得“轻松”了，这就像是一个下坡路。
Despite this, designers can't make their cars too 'slippery', as a good supply of airflow has to be ensured to help dissipate the vast amounts of heat produced by a modern Formula One engine.
尽管如此，设计师也不能让赛车过于光滑，因为适量的空气有助于驱散现代一级方程序赛车发动机所产生的巨大热量。
Despite this, designers can't make their cars too 'slippery', as a good supply of airflow has to be ensured to help dissipate the vast amounts of heat produced by a modern Formula One engine.
尽管如此，设计师也不能让赛车过于光滑，因为适量的空气有助于驱散现代一级方程序赛车发动机所产生的巨大热量。
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