many in the firm wanted to slither out of the agreement, but mr weinberg thought that would send the worst kind of signal: that goldman might let a client down.
公司内部很多人想要赖掉这个合同。但温伯格却认为如果这样做的话,将会给客户传达一个极端错误的信号:「高盛会使他的客户失望」。
there are ground-based robots, for example, designed to climb up and down piles of rubble and slither into otherwise inaccessible cracks to look for survivors.
比如说,地面机器人,被设计为能爬上爬下瓦砾堆以及进入人类难以进入的裂缝搜寻幸存者。
it let him survive. besides, if a poisonous snake didn「t bite him in the first 30 seconds, he knew it was a softie that would settle in his hands and slither round his neck like a tie.
除此以外,如果一条毒蛇在开始三十秒内没有咬他,那么他知道其实这条蛇的性情很温和,然后他会把这条蛇拿到手里把玩,然后像系领带一样把蛇绕到自己的脖子上。
gaza, a slither of land sandwiched between egypt and israel, has only three bookshops for its 1.5m people.
加沙地处埃以之间狭长的夹缝中, 150万人口却只有三家书店。
tattoos of spiders and snakes slither along the mummy」s arms.
木乃伊的手臂上纹有蜘蛛和蛇的图案。
there are some anachronisms who love their long-form opera, but the realaction is in the more fluid stuff that can slither around on hotwax —and now the superfluid droplets of mp3s and samples.
是有一些过时的家伙爱听长篇歌剧,但真正的舞台在更加灵活的可以在热蜡上游走的东西上,而现在更有超流体液滴--mp3和音乐样品。
the snow on the ground began to slither away.
地板上的雪开始滑跑了。
he can slither down from a sofa, pick up peas and point wildly at anything that catches his bright blue eyes.
他能从沙发上滑下来,捡起豌豆,并且能激动地指着任何能吸引他那明亮的蓝眼球的东西。
when he awoke the next morning, he noticed that the bottom of his bedroom door was arched up in the center, leaving just enough space for a snake to slither through.
第二天早上他醒来的时候,发现房门下面正中央有个弧形的小缺口,刚好够一条蛇溜进来。
she used a slither of tooth enamel the size of a nail clipping to trace his origins.
埃文斯通过大小相当于小钉的牙齿瓷釉(珐瑯)质,来确定他的来历。
「when that water gets into a neighborhood, snakes are going to be searching for shelter and food in homes or sheds or wherever they can slither into, 」 shular said.
舒勒说:「当水临近的时候,蛇将会去家庭或者家畜舍屋寻找食物和僻难所,或者其他它能沟溜进去的地方。」
exactly how does a snake slither across the ground??scientists long assumed that the reptile pushed against rocks and branches to move forward.
蛇是如何在地上爬的?科学家们一直认为蛇通过推动石和树枝向前移动。
some would quickly bag their merchandise and slither into a side street; some would get caught and start crying and wailing.
有的飞快地把自己的货物塞到口袋里,连跑带滑地窜进小巷子里;那些被抓住了的,就哀求、哭嚎。
the elongated, serpentine body that allows land snakes to slither through dense grass also serves aquatic snakes in propelling through water.
伸长的、蜿蜒的躯体可以使得陆生蛇类在浓密的草丛间滑动,也能使水生蛇类在水里游动自如。
his previous research, often inspired by beauty in nature, has investigated questions such as how snakes slither and how the venus fly trap snaps its jaws.
马哈德文此前进行的各项研究,常常是受自然之美的启发,比如他的研究课题就包括这样的问题:蛇是如何向前滑动的?捕蚊草的捕蚊口是怎样咬合的?
more often than not, the rattlesnake will slither away in search of a less intimidating foe.
多数情况下,响尾蛇会爬开,去寻找不这么吓人的猎物。
as i crossed the threshold of the cafeteria, i felt the first true tingle of fear slither down my spine and settle in my stomach.
当我穿过自助餐厅的入口时,我第一次真切地感受到了一阵恐惧的刺痛滑过我的脊柱,落到我的胃里。