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tightrope

/tahyt-rohp/US // ˈtaɪtˌroʊp //UK // (ˈtaɪtˌrəʊp) //

绳索,走钢丝,走绳索,走绳

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    tight·roped, tight·rop·ing.

    • : to walk, move, or proceed on or as on a tightrope: He tightroped through enemy territory.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    tight·roped, tight·rop·ing.

    • : to make on or as on a tightrope.

Examples

  • When you add to that that it’s someone of the stature of Rudy Giuliani that you have to get on his own, in the middle of a pandemic, and make sure he doesn’t suspect anything, it’s just an absolute tightrope.

  • More recently, the companies have walked a tightrope, acknowledging that climate change is real while still insisting that they need to service a robust market for their products that will exist for decades.

  • With that in mind, check out these tightrope walkers high above the demonstrations in Medellin and Bogota’s Philharmonic Orchestra striking up Fanfare for the Common Man to appeal for calm.

  • Directing Bollywood drama The Last Color, now on Amazon Prime, Khanna delivers a story about the unique friendship between a 9-year-old tightrope walker and a widow, confronting taboos around caste, widowhood and gender roles.

  • It’s a tightrope of not feeling but staying busy but not being vulnerable, which complicates things with my partner because connecting with my partner requires vulnerability and emotion.

  • The heir to a tightrope walking family has tried some crazy stunts in his day.

  • The self-styled ‘Art Criminal’ dazzled onlookers and made history when he tightrope walked between the WTC towers 40 years ago.

  • All weekend reporters in eastern Ukraine were walking a bizarre tightrope, of prurience, politesse, and ghoulishness.

  • The clan had a tightrope act that went horribly wrong in 1962.

  • To this day, the family still enthusiastically explores tightrope walking.

  • There were washed out trails where the ride would be in the nature of tightrope walking.

  • One thing that we must suppose he particularly liked was a wonderful tightrope walker.

  • Douglas Fairbanks is doing a little tightrope walking on the telegraph wires.

  • The famous Blondin was going to perform on a tightrope in another part of the garden.

  • When a performer falls from the tightrope, who remembers all the times he has not failed?

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