slippery
- adj. 湿滑的，容易打滑的；<非正式>狡猾的，不可靠的；模棱两可的，模糊的
[ 比较级 slipperier或more slippery 最高级 slipperiest或most slippery ]
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
slippery /ˈslɪpərɪ/ CET4 TEM4
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ADJ Something that is slippery is smooth, wet, or oily and is therefore difficult to walk on or to hold. 滑的; 湿滑的
例：The tiled floor was wet and slippery.
那磁砖地板又湿又滑。
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ADJ You can describe someone as slippery if you think that they are dishonest in a clever way and cannot be trusted. 狡猾的; 不可靠的 [表不满]
例：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。
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3.
PHRASE If someone is on a slippery slope, they are involved in a course of action that is difficult to stop and that will eventually lead to failure or trouble. 不断恶化的局势
例：The company started down the slippery slope of believing that they knew better than the customer.
该公司开始走下坡路了，他们相信自己比顾客更明白。
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Don't believe what he says—he's a slippery customer.
他说什么你可别信—他是个滑头。
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Motorists were warned to beware of slippery conditions.
汽车驾驶者被提醒小心路滑。
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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。
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Toyota says it found a software problem that could briefly affect the "feel" of the anti-lock brakes on rough or slippery roads.
VOA: special.2010.02.05
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And so in the sentence that we've just looked at at some length now we have embodied in the form of a shifting argument - a really slippery argument -- the two senses of the word vocation: vocation as a job and vocation as a divine calling.
所以在我们详细看过的句子里,现在我们把他具体化成为论点的形式,这是一种狡猾的论辩--vocation的两种含义：,作为工作或者作为神的召唤。
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Placing it there was the idea of Richard Wukich, an art professor at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
VOA: special.2009.06.22
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