英语释义

1. a course of action that seems to lead inevitably from one action or result to another with unintended consequences

2. a process or series of events that is hard to stop or control once it has begun and that usually leads to worse or more difficult things

片语

on a slippery slope难以自拔

slippery slope effect滑坡效应

The Slippery SlopeThe Slippery Slope is the tenth novel in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

Slippery slope fallacy滑坡谬误

the theory of slippery slope滑坡理论

slippery slope theory滑坡理论

英汉例句

• i realize that there are different views of morality and we could go down a very slippery slope discussing them. so, decide upon what you consider 「moral duty and obligation」 before reading further.

  我知道对道德的看法有各种不同的看法，在讨论时我们有可能朝着一个急剧下滑的方向进行，因此要依靠我们对道德责任和道德义务的理解来继续阅读。

• it「s also a tool to help you avoid the slippery slope of competing on price alone and thereby eating into the margins you need to earn more than a subsistence wage.

  这还有助于你避免因单独的价格战而引起的灾难性急剧下滑；因此，你不仅能赚取足以维持基本运营的最低收入，还将获得广阔的利润空间。

• like post hoc, slippery slope can be a tricky fallacy to identify, since sometimes a chain of events really can be predicted to follow from a certain action.

  正如原因错误，一滑到底式的谬误很难被识别，有时候某一行为引起的一系列的事件的确是可以预见的。

• i think lebanon, for a long time now - for several months or more - has been on a slippery slope of violence and turmoil.

  他说：「我认为，几个月甚至更长一段时间以来，黎巴嫩一直在滑向暴力和混乱的深渊。

• there need be no slippery slope and no threat to potentially 「vulnerable」 people.

  对可能会“脆弱」的人来说，没有人威胁，情况也没有每况愈下。 如果有，那也是来自于现行法律，因为现行法律容许了业余的、不专业的、没有安全措施的安乐死的存在。

• in came atlético, and he soon found himself on the slippery slope again.

  然后到马竞技，没多久他发现自己又走了下坡。

• she climbed the slippery slope with difficulty to root out herbs.

  她艰难地爬上滑坡寻找草药。

• some see this as a slippery slope down which 「efficiency seems to authorise all imaginable offences against our dear language, 」 as one educationalist grumbles.

  一位教育学家抱怨道：「我们宝贵的语言遭到了侵犯,其影响可以想象，而“追求效率」似乎使这种侵犯有了正当的理由。”

• we have to accept that once we start down the slippery slope of always (or never) believing, we end up in alice-in-wonderland territory.

  我们必须承认，一旦我们开始一味地（或从不）相信，我们最终将会陷入「爱丽丝梦游仙境」的困境。

• i’m still not sure i did the right thing in going to the breakfast, or in getting onto the slippery slope of answering personal questions.

  我现在仍然不能确定，出席那个早餐会或回答私生活问题是否是正确的策略。

• ireland」s government fears a harmonised base would be a slippery slope to common rates, eventually forcing it to raise its highly competitive corporate tax rate of 12.5%.

  爱尔兰政府害怕协调后的税基将会引起共同税率的剧烈的下滑，最终将使其不得不提高该国具有高度竞争性，仅有12.5%的公司税率。

• i see what you mean, and i know it「s a slippery slope .

  我明白你的意思了，我知道那会越陷越深。

• different from single corporate immoral behavior, slippery slope occurs when companies conduct repeated immoral behaviors in a time series, which have some specific characters.

  与企业单次失德行为不同，企业道德滑坡行为是企业在一个时间序列中产生的重复失德行为，它具有更多自身的独特性。

• if they dined or swam or danced together, southern white men feared, they were on a slippery slope towards sleeping together.

  如果他们一起进餐，游泳或者跳舞，白人男性就会表现的极为不安，害怕他们有睡在一起的危险。

• the european: there’s the slippery slope argument: once we decide to pursue human enhancements with a certain determination, we have less control over the limits of these enhancements.

  《欧洲人》：有这样一个滑坡论证：一旦我们下定决心谋求人类提升，限制提升的控制力就会被削弱。

• some environmental groups feel that even physically harmless tests could represent the first step onto a slippery slope that would ultimately lead to full scale deployment of these technologies.

  一些环保团体认为，即使是一项本质上无害的试验，也有可能标志着滑向危险的第一步，根据滑坡理论，有了这第一步，就完全有可能最终导致全面大规模地应用这些技术。

• although sometimes- i mean one way of avoiding a slippery slope is by defining something. you have to use slippery slope sometimes don」t we?

  尽管有时候-,有一种避免斜坡谬论的方法是,定义一些东西，你有时要用到斜坡谬论,难道不是吗？

• 「we feel that「s a slippery slope that we don」t really want to go down.」but

  我们觉得这是一个下坡路，我们实在不想这样。

• but they also worry it is a slippery slope from qe to monetising government deficits and thence, inevitably, to inflation.

  但是人们依然担忧，量化宽松会过犹不及，最终走向政府赤字货币化，甚至不可避免的导致通货膨胀。