My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself that it's a slip and not a fall.

我一只脚滑了一跤，另一只脚也因而站不稳了。但晃过神来时，我就告诫自己：这只不过是滑了一跤，并不是摔倒爬不起来了。

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The critic calls attention to the way novelists slip sneakily in and out of their own prose, here speaking as a character, there pulling back the veil and revealing the voice of the author.

这位评论家令我们注意到小说家在他们自己的作品中悄然出场和退场的方式：一会儿在这儿以小说人物的身份说话，一会儿在那儿撩开面纱现出作者的本声。

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All because of my stupid, stupid slip of the tongue in the car on the way back from Chessington World of Adventures.

都怪我，从切斯顿冒险世界回来的路上，在车上说走嘴，我真笨。

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If you knew your way around in the funhouse like your own bedroom, you could wait until a girl came along and then slip away without ever getting caught, even if her boyfriend was right with her.

如果你在开心馆中跟自己在寝室里一样熟悉门道，你可以等一个姑娘前来，事后溜之大吉,绝不会被人抓住，即使她男朋友就在旁边。

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