When dealing with a difficult person, don't try to convince with argument - language are slippery and logic is malleable.
当我们和难相处的人打交道时，不要试图用争论来说服对方- - -语言是狡猾的，逻辑是可变的。
On the hardware side, the light, 13.4-ounces unit just fits in a single hand, but the slick surface tends to be slippery and prone to dropping.
在硬件方面，机身很轻(13.4盎司)，单手正好拿着。但表面易滑，容易掉。
Anyone who has ever walked on a frozen lake, gone ice skating or tried curling knows that ice is slippery and that it takes practice to move with any kind of confidence.
任何在结冰的湖面行走过、滑过冰或者玩过冰上掷石游戏的人都知道冰很滑，在上面行走需要点儿信心。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Yet so slippery—and thus convenient to politicians—is the English language that a single word encompasses both, and in doing so loses any claim to meaning.
英语非常狡猾-因此对于政客们来说非常方便-一个词涵将这两种意义都涵盖了，并且在行动中失去其中的一种意义。
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。
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。
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。
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。
The European: There’s the slippery slope argument: Once we decide to pursue human enhancements with a certain determination, we have less control over the limits of these enhancements.
《欧洲人》：有这样一个滑坡论证：一旦我们下定决心谋求人类提升，限制提升的控制力就会被削弱。
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。
This divergence in estimates highlights the biggest problem in relying on the output gap: it is a slippery thing to measure.
这两个估测数据之间的差距鲜明地体现了依赖产出缺口的一个最大的问题：测量不可靠。
A SLIPPERY rain-soaked circuit in Shanghai did Lewis Hamilton no favours in the third Formula 1 (F1) race this season.
在本赛季第三站方程式1赛车比赛中，上海湿滑的赛道并不有利于路易斯.汉密尔顿。
It's also a tool to help you avoid the slippery slope of competing on price alone and thereby eating into the margins you need to earn more than a subsistence wage.
这还有助于你避免因单独的价格战而引起的灾难性急剧下滑；因此，你不仅能赚取足以维持基本运营的最低收入，还将获得广阔的利润空间。
They made one small error and stepped out on that slippery slope, then tried to cover up that error, cover up that error until eventually they dug themselves a hole they couldn't get out.
他们都犯了一个小错误，然后就走上了不归路，试图掩盖之前的错误，然后一直掩盖下去，直到最后，他们自掘坟墓，无法自保。
We don't want to get the Supreme Court into making fine distinctions about what is better than others, because that will lead us down a slippery slope.
我们不想让最高法院来区分‘哪些比其它更好’这种细微差别，因为那会导致我们越陷越深。
Some see this as a slippery slope down which “efficiency seems to authorise all imaginable offences against our dear language, ” as one educationalist grumbles.
一位教育学家抱怨道：“我们宝贵的语言遭到了侵犯,其影响可以想象，而“追求效率”似乎使这种侵犯有了正当的理由。”
There may also be a way to cut aircraft drag by making some surfaces less slippery.
把表面粗糙化也可能是减小飞机反作用力一个办法。
The trouble is that the idea of what defines a species is a lot more slippery than you might think.
定义新物种的动机要比人们通常想象中的狡猾得多。
If you're walking down a hill, or steps, and you can see that it's - could be slippery, the best thing to do is to turn sideways.
如果你下山或下楼梯，你知道那可能会很滑，最好的办法就是侧着身走。
Yet how these hairy crawlers negotiate steep, slippery surfaces has been a tangled web for arachnologists.
不过这些毛绒绒的蜘蛛如何在或陡峭或湿滑的表面上立足，一直令蜘蛛学家们颇为费解。
There are some that argue that by using PGD for these diseases Britain is taking a step onto a dangerous slippery slope.
有一些观点认为，使用PGD治疗这些疾病，英国是迈上了光滑的陡坡。
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