| 词汇 | tightrope |
| 释义 | tightrope noun[ C ] uk /ˈtaɪt.rəʊp/ us /ˈtaɪt.roʊp/ a tightly stretched wire or rope fixed high above the ground, across which skilled people walk, especially in order to entertain others: （尤指用于娱乐表演的）绷紧的钢丝（或绳索） One of the acrobats who walked the tightrope at the circus did it blindfolded.马戏团里走钢丝的杂技演员中有一位是蒙着眼睛走的。 Jared Alden/GettyImages Carnival, fairground & circus acrobatics aerialist amusement arcade amusement park big dipper big top clownishly coconut shy contortionist custard pie dodgem fairground juggle juggler juggling loop the loopidiom merry-go-round midway trapeze artist unicycle Idiomwalk/tread a tightrope tightrope | American Dictionarytightrope noun[ C ] us/ˈtɑɪtˌroʊp/ a stretched wire or rope fixed above the ground that skilled people walk across, esp. in a circus performance tightrope | Business Englishtightrope noun[ C ] uk /ˈtaɪtrəʊp/us walk/tread a tightrope to consider carefully the decisions or risks that you take in order to deal successfully with a difficult situation: Increasing numbers of employers are having to walk a tightrope between immigration laws and laws relating to discrimination. Examples of tightropetightrope 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. See all examples of tightrope 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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