| 单词 | tightrope |
| 释义 | tightrope (taɪtroʊp ) Word forms: tightropes 1. countable noun A tightrope is a tightly stretched piece of rope on which someone balances and performs tricks in a circus. 2. countable noun [usually singular] You can use tightrope in expressions such as walk a tightrope and live on a tightrope to indicate that someone is in a difficult situation and has to be very careful about what they say or do. They're walking a tightrope between being overprotective and not caring enough. For the past few days Corinne has been living on an emotional tightrope. Idioms: walk a tightrope to be in a difficult situation where you must be very careful about what you do or say, because you are trying to satisfy opposing groups He is walking a tightrope between the young activists and the more traditional elements within the democracy movement. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: tightrope act His immersion in the politics of club and country must have felt like a tightrope act. Times, Sunday Times There's a rockabilly juggler who comically drops her clubs and carries on regardless, with a winsome grin; there's a slapstick tightrope act, at once clownish and graceful. Times, Sunday Times He was now bound to pay salaries to the actors and, as it turned out, to manage the theatre, a notorious tightrope act for which he had no experience. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Because it can detect so many subtle variations of movement, the range of exercises is broad: step aerobics, ski jumping, tightrope walking and jogging. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Next up for me it was tightrope walking - how hard could that be? Times, Sunday Times (2007) My afternoon begins with tightrope walking. Times, Sunday Times (2016) He performed both feats without safety nets or harnesses and set new records for tightrope walking. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Translations: Chinese: 钢索 Japanese: 綱渡りの綱 |
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