slack

slack

美 [slæk] 　英 [slæk]

• adj.不緊的；松弛的；蕭條的；冷清的
• adv.松弛地；緩慢地；無力地；不充分地
• n.（繩索的）松弛部分；閑置部分；煤屑；煤末
• v.懈怠；怠惰；偷懶
• 網絡懈怠的；懶散的；淡季

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英漢雙解

習慣用語

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例句

We must be willing to go against the slack and trouble, ready to stir them and then watch them.

我們必須愿意去對抗懈怠與煩惱，愿意去激起它們再觀察它們。

she had a feeling (that)bank security was a little slack and wanted to test it out.

她對銀行的安全性并不是很信任，她想測試一下。

I didn't slack off, but I developed a sort of cocky confidence that I had never experienced in my first three years of college.

我沒有松懈，但我養成了一種大學前三年從沒有過的驕傲自信的心態。

He said it was unclear whether private demand would be strong enough to pick up the slack when fiscal stimulus fades in 2010.

他說，目前還不清楚的是，在2010年，當財政刺激措施淡出之后，私人需求會否旺盛到足以填補需求缺口的地步。

The only way we could have avoided a prolonged slump would have been for government spending to take up the slack.

我們避免衰退持續的方法是，政府應收緊財政支出。

In recent weeks he has left interviewers slack-jawed with amazement as he throws out his thoughts on how he would behave as president.

最近幾周他所發表的關于自己若成為總統將如何作為的言論讓眾人瞠目結舌。

Stock-trading volume also tends to slack off in August, which can magnify the impact of any sudden development.

8月股市交易量一般也較小，這會放大任何突發事件帶來的影響。

The first step of that process seems to be happening -- U. S. consumers are more cautious -- but it is unclear who will take up their slack.

改變的第一步似乎將要發生，美國消費者越來越謹慎，可還不清楚誰將擔負起他們的頹勢。

He had a ragtag band of criminals ready to pick up the slack .

他就讓一群烏合之眾的犯人來收拾這個爛攤子。

Then, tell your belayer to leave some slack in the rope while you climb up a few moves and take a fall.

然后，上爬幾步并讓保護員收繩時留一些余量，接著嘗試墜落。

Whenever I say this to a guy, he will generally stare at me, slack jawed , as if I were speaking some foreign language.

無論何時我對一個男的說這種話，他通常都是呆呆地盯著我，就像我在說外國語言似的。

This week, Beijing appeared to be cutting Pyongyang yet more slack by welcoming Kim Jong-il, North Korea's leader, for a secretive visit.

上周，北京歡迎朝鮮領導人金正日秘密訪華，似乎再次寬恕了平壤方面。

At first he thought this was because he had allowed his will to weaken, the concentrated power of his mind to grow slack.

起初，他以為這是因為自己意志不夠堅定，讓聚精會神的注意力渙散了。

Compounding matters, the industry will no longer be able to rely on a rising population of new "wealth accumulators" to take up the slack.

更為嚴重的是，基金管理業將再也無法依賴不斷增加的新“財富積累者”來填補虧空。

While full-time tech jobs might not be making a roaring comeback, freelance and part-time work seems to be picking up the slack.

當全職的科技工作似乎不能重振雄風的時候，自由職業者和臨時工作者便來收拾殘局。

That's like writing about sex and trying to make it boring, so please cut me some slack if I try to make you chuckle along the way.

這像描寫性并使它變得討厭，所以如果我試圖使你發笑離開請你放我一馬。

The slip-knot about his wrist would not yield, for the bear was all the time pulling in the slack with his paws.

的支路，關于他的手腕結不會屈服的熊，是所有的時間在與他的爪子拉疲弱。

India did not prevent overall profit growth; in another year another country will do poorly and India will pick up the slack.

印度業務沒有阻礙渣打的總體利潤增長；當另一年、另一個國家的市場表現不佳時，印度市場將會作為補足。

Most North Route tours end at Yangkuo (Slack Mouth) beach, named for an offshore rock shaped like the head of a slumped back man.

到多數北線旅游在仰口海灘就結束了，仰口海灘得名于海邊一塊巖石象一位駝背老人的頭。

This message would be terminally muddled were the FSA to be seen to have cut Prudential slack to help get the deal done.

如果人們的看法是，FSA放了保誠一馬，以幫助促成這筆交易，最終傳達出的信息將是混亂的。

He was capable of slack writing which he would not condone in others.

他痛恨別人草率成篇，其實自己也有這個毛病。

I did not want to become involved in the fishing which had its good times and its slack times.

我不愿陷入釣魚的習慣，而釣魚是有它的旺季和淡季的。

The rope is too slack.

繩子太松了。

Tom is often late for work these days, but I'm sure boss will cut him some slack. After all, his wife just died.

Tom最近老遲到，不過我相信頭兒一定不會追究。畢竟，他的妻子剛去世。

All the more reason you need to talk to her and ask her to cut you some slack.

那你就更有理由跟她說，叫她讓你放松一下。

And what's been taking up the slack in the last few decades? Well, a lot of natural gas and a little bit of nuclear, for starters.

在過去數十年，究竟是什么取代了石油的地位呢？開始時是用大量天然氣和極少的核能。

And there is nothing in the European data suggesting that the private sector will be ready to take up the slack in less than two years.

歐洲提供的數字里沒有任何東西顯示私營部門在不到兩年內可以拉緊這根已經松弛的繩子。

He was capable of slack writing which he would not condone in others.

他痛恨別人草率成篇，其實自己也有這個毛病。

"They're getting slack, I'm afraid, " said the little deep-eyed man, "Our principle is to amuse everyone. "

“我怕他們都有點不上勁了，”凹眼睛的矮個子說，“我們的原則是要使得人人都有興趣。”

Japanese savers will be selling bonds in retirement -- and there aren't enough younger workers to save enough to pick up the slack.

日本儲戶會在退休的時候把債券賣掉，而由于更年輕的勞動者沒有那么多，他們的儲蓄不足以填補這個空白。

Bernanke also said the recovery will gain momentum only gradually and that economic slack will decline slowly.

伯南克還說，復蘇的力度只會逐步加強。

If I happen to finish my One Thing early, I can slack off for the rest of the day (my favorite strategy), or I can pick my next One Thing.

如果我碰巧把這件事情完成地比較早，我可以在這一天剩余的時間懶懶散散（這是我最愛的方式），也可以選擇下一件“一件事”。

Gerard Lyons, chief economist at Standard Chartered, said China can only "partially make up for the slack in demand from U. S. consumers" .

渣打銀行首席分析師GerardLyons表示，中國只能“部分彌補美國消費者需求的減少。”

Just to be included in the company of these amazing women I have so admired through the years, has left me slack-jawed with awe.

能和多年來我一直崇拜的這些著名女影星同獲提名，我受寵若驚，心中充滿了敬畏。

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the economy had a high degree of slack, which should help to keep inflation contained.

美聯儲主席伯南克周二表示，美國經濟的資源閑置度很高，應有助保持通脹受到抑制。

Rather than rushing to fill the vacancy, I watched to see which employees would voluntarily pick up the slack.

而不是急于一下子填滿所有的空缺職位，我很注意觀察，那一位員工能自覺地從松弛狀態恢復過來。

But those alone can hardly account for all the slack in what was supposed to be a reasonably vigorous recovery by now, he says.

但他同時表示，僅憑這些因素很難解釋本應相當強勁的經濟復蘇為何如此疲弱。

It was attached to a stout crosstimber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees.

一個沉沉的十字架從他的頭部綁上下部落到它的膝蓋位子。

U. S. policy makers will have to hope one of its chief economic rivals steps in to pick up the slack.

美國的決策者將不得不寄希望于其經濟上的主要競爭對手之一能夠介入，填補其退出造成的空缺。

LeBron, who battled back spasms all night long, wasn't at his best, and his teammates were unable to pick up the slack.

勒布朗，他們戰斗背部痙攣一整夜，是不是他最好的，和他的隊友們不能帶著這種呆滯。

To dissocial and slack patient, should supervise and urge its attend simple recreational and sports activities, avoid lie in bed all day.

對孤僻懶散的患者，應督促其參加簡單的文體活動，避免終日臥床。

Around the house, she wears paint-spattered jeans and old T-shirts, through whose slack sleeves you often catch sight of her underarm hair.

在房里轉悠著，身穿油漆濺舊的牛仔褲和T恤衫，穿過松垮的袖子可見她的腋毛。

There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight .

這時在她身后傳來一聲輕微的響聲，她轉身一把抓住了一個小男孩的短外套的衣角，他想跑都跑不掉了。