| 词汇 | example_english_tightrope |
| 释义 | Examples of tightropeThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. No amount of talk about only permitting the tightrope-walker to fall will persuade otherwise. His favorite metaphor is that of a circus acrobat walking a tightrope, tipping this way and that, achieving temporary equilibrium. Architecture is both a tightrope walk and a balancing act. The consolidation of the role of technology assessment in health systems will depend on our ability to continue walking this tightrope as professional funambulists. Clearly the tightrope of balancing such conflicting interests and norms can demand agile solutions. However, because the new conservative doctrine had worked vociferously to conflate crime and civil disobedience, with its obvious extensions to civil rights, liberals were forced to walk a tightrope. The way politics works, it always involves a tightrope walk with hope on one side and despair on the other. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English You must not walk on a tightrope because, as we all know, tightrope-walkers are doomed to fall one day. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English To be both is a tremendous balancing act and you have skilfully negotiated the tightrope. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We have tried to walk the tightrope between synergy and subsidiarity without ever losing sight of our obligation to exercise budgetary discipline. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In addition, we need, above all, to communicate well in order to walk the tightrope between keeping the patients, consumers and producers informed and doing right by all of them. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Lions are made to walk on tightropes; lions and tigers are made to jump through hoops of flame. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another man, resembling the artist, tries to keep his feet on two roads that intertwine and tangle like tightropes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Elephant shows display the dexterity of elephants as they walk tightropes, ride skateboards and dance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He taught them to fire miniature cannons and walk tightropes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. New abilities introduced in this game include picking up and carrying enemies and walking on tightropes across buildings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A freestyle slackline has no tension in it, while both traditional slacklines and tightropes are tensioned. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Players try to advance on the tightropes in pairs, with their hips and ankles attached to their partner, and have to use overhead ropes to guide them on the tightropes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Now they must decide on which side of the tightrope they will fall off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any major concessions either way will cause the tightrope of acceptability great difficulty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have reached an area in which we have a tightrope to walk in deciding to what lengths to go. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even cinema audiences have been shown the tightrope which international banks have to walk and the consequences of the system breaking down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suppose that means something like tightrope walking on a rope which is not very tight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are trying to walk a difficult tightrope between the two. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I wonder whether it is as a tightrope walker, a juggler or perhaps even one of the clowns. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a tightrope in deciding between what is of benefit and which points should be included in the written statement and which should not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A crooked tightrope is outside the experience of most of us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know that he has a difficult tightrope to walk. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One third of the workforce is living on a financial tightrope and the abolition of the wage councils would shred it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I fully realise the precarious tightrope he has had to walk. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is walking a tightrope between a fragile peace and a return to extremism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The balance of constructive support with internal interference is a difficult tightrope to tread. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Exhibitions of tightrope-walking and even of acrobatics are familiar in this business as in that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is walking this particular tightrope with a surer foot than his predecessors, who were inclined to fall off it altogether. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do they show any cruelty in training; or does he infer that, because the animal is walking on a tightrope, there must be cruelty? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Anyone working in this field, it seems to me, must walk a tightrope between too much and too little interference. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do have a separation of powers, and we walk a tightrope in terms of maintaining it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all know that he constantly has to walk a tightrope if he is to preserve his kingdom intact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A tightrope usually proceeds in a straight line. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is walking a tightrope in respect not only of what is happening on the sub-continent but of the communities here. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In dealing with another place, which we must challenge but from which we derive our power, we must walk on a tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nevertheless, in view of the international situation, he had to tiptoe delicately along a tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People who are walking a tightrope without a safety net take the fewest risks, and cling most desperately to what they have. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We tread a difficult tightrope over our behaviour here as well as with our procedures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of all, they desperately do not want to fall off the tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We walk a tightrope, and we must be honest as legislators and admit that we do not always get it right. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are on a tightrope for the next few years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only way to avoid falling from that tightrope occasionally is to refuse to walk it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is an improvement in certain aspects of the economy, but he knows the tightrope on which he is walking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot walk the tightrope at all times. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I said at the beginning that we were walking an economic tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One always has to walk a tightrope in such cases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They would add to the immense difficulties which he already has to overcome on the strange tightrope which holders of his office have to walk. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The tightrope is slack because it lacks the necessary tension which would arise if local authorities were compelled to raise the money that they spend. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am moving steadily towards my objective along a very narrow tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He started by taking refuge in a very light tone, talking about walking the tightrope and being neither partial nor impartial. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now we are told that that is recognised, recognised in various degrees by the tightrope walkers we have heard today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Investment in a small, unquoted, close company is indeed like walking a tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was well aware of the fine line between the two, and we have always had to tread such a tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They chose a most delicate subject, and in the most expert manner walked the tightrope of being non-controversial. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You still give us a difficult tightrope along which to walk. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A tightrope has to be walked between excessive burdens and needs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The tightrope is difficult but it must be walked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The tightrope is not a very accurate description. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was not a particularly good tightrope artist either. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know that everyone is walking a tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Deciding what can and cannot be broadcast is a difficult tightrope on which to walk. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should prefer to call it a tightrope, which is rather more comfortable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Head teachers frequently find themselves walking a tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one is walking on a tightrope it is just as dangerous to stop as it is to go too fast. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The nature of the tightrope that we are walking has been made evident. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one is on a tightrope in an economic fog, there is a great danger that one will fall off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have long used the analogy of balancing on a tightrope between inflation and recession. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, without any roll of drums, we must try to achieve the greatest balancing feat of all time on a high tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is on no tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, it seems to me that all ceremonial treads rather a tricky tightrope between what one might think of as undignified understatement and, on the other side, bathetic absurdity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I wondered whether the crowd was there to admire his musical talents, to admire his abilities as a tightrope artist, or to see whether he fell off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If humans wish to act as clowns, and risk their necks and limbs in the exhibition of their skill and daring on trapeze and tightrope, well, good luck to them! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have walked a political tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He must, above all, try to walk the tightrope between the modest reflation which we and many other people have called for and his anxieties about the balance of payments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nevertheless, the tightrope is still being walked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even before the election they were balancing on a tightrope, trying to satisfy the green lobby while masquerading as the friend of the coal mining community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sector is still walking a tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I sometimes have an uneasy feeling that the nation has become rather like the amateur on to tightrope who can only keep his balance by going faster and faster. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both leaders have their home front and their own extremists to consider and their path towards peace is often narrowed to the width of a tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have heard it said by a number of respected commentators that the sector is currently walking a tightrope in a way it perhaps has never done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are on a tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She is walking on a political tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The effects of our tightrope position are now beginning to show up in the classical way, as they have done at regular intervals since the end of the war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am balancing on a tightrope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The shows include a range of circus disciplines including acrobatics, juggling, aerial work, clowning, tightrope walking and aqua-balance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Entertainment in this period included hot air balloon ascents, fireworks, and tightrope walkers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The next couple of years the club walked the tightrope, at times struggling both on and off the field. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The full length of his tightrope was 1800 ft. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Leonora looks on in mesmerized fascination at the tightrope walker. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The house is spacious but oddly decorated: the most prominent features are a broken clock with a clown face, and a toy tightrope walker. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The tightrope walking performance is composed of a rope player, a clown and musical instrument players. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Village women come and watch an acrobat roll a hoop across a tightrope. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Callicotts comparative environmental philosophy also involves a tightrope walk between pluralism and monism. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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