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。
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.
VOA: special.2011.07.04
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。
It is a slippery slope. And, we're not careful, before we know it all of us will be in a much more dire situation."
VOA: standard.2009.11.11
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