tightrope

noun

1. （尤指马戏团表演用的）绷紧的绳索，绷紧的钢丝
   a rope or wire that is stretched tightly high above the ground and that performers walk along, especially in a circus
   1. a tightrope walker
      走钢丝演员

1. (马戏团的表演用)绷索，钢丝
   A tightrope is a tightly stretched piece of rope on which someone balances and performs tricks in a circus.
2. N-COUNT 走钢丝(比喻处境艰难，必须小心行事)
   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.
   1. School administrators walk a tightrope between the demands of the community and the realities of how children really behave...
      学校管理者在社区的要求和孩子们的实际表现之间小心翼翼地平衡局面。
   2. For the past few days Corinne has been living on an emotional tightrope.
      在过去几天里，科琳娜在感情问题上如履薄冰。

1. School administrators walk a tightrope between the demands of the community and the realities of how children really behave
   学校管理者在社区的要求和孩子们的实际表现之间小心翼翼地平衡局面。
2. For the past few days Corinne has been living on an emotional tightrope.
   在过去几天里，科琳娜在感情问题上如履薄冰。
3. The tightrope walker kept her balance by holding an open umbrella.
   走钢丝的演员举着一把伞，保持身体的均衡。
4. As I mentioned yesterday, it will be a tightrope act.
   就像我之前说过的，这会是充满紧张气氛的一幕。
5. However, this can be like a tightrope walker working without a net.
   然而，这可能像是一位拉紧绳索的行人在没有网的情况下工作。
6. A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
   生动地再现了1974年菲利普·佩蒂行走在世贸中心（双塔）之间的钢索上的情景。
7. But the fear is that Cirque has taken a step down the tightrope that leads to mere mass production.
   但外界担心，太阳马戏团已走上通往简单的大规模生产的钢丝绳。
8. Studies of anesthesia awareness are full of such horror stories, because administering anesthesia is a tightrope walk.
   在关于麻醉觉醒（anesthesiaawareness）的研究里，充满了此类恐怖故事，这是由于给予麻醉的确是一项令麻醉医师如履薄冰的棘手任务。
9. A good [ poor] seaman YIN MINGSHAN is a Chinese tightrope walker.
   尹明善是一个善于走钢丝的中国人。
10. President Ouattara has to walk a political and military tightrope.
    瓦塔拉必须走政治和军事路线。
11. A person who performs feats of balance, such as tightrope walking.
    保持平衡的人表演平衡技巧的人，如走钢丝者。
12. The audience held their breath as the monkey walked along the tightrope.
    猴子走钢丝时，观众都屏住了呼吸。
13. An Armenian tightrope walker steadies himself with his balance pole as he prepared to perform a trick.
    一个亚美尼亚的走钢丝者用他的平衡杆保持平衡，准备玩一场把戏。
14. Economic stability& growth are a tightrope walking exercise for the Chinese leadership.
    如何保证经济的稳定和增长对于中国领导层而言宛如走钢丝一般。
15. Most men have no idea of the tightrope women walk in climbing the corporate ladder.
    大多数男性不知道女性在公司阶梯上攀爬的危险。
16. There is gasp of horror from the spectator as he fall off the tightrope.
    他从紧的绳索上摔了下来，观众吓得直喘气。
17. China must walk a tightrope.
    中国必须走好钢丝绳。
18. Beijing has always walked a tightrope in calculating its interests in the six-party talks.
    在算计自己在六方会谈中的利益时，中国一直在走钢丝。
19. The drums rolled as the acrobat walked along the tightrope.
    杂技演员走在钢索上时，鼓咚咚地敲着。
20. Like its neighbours, China is walking a tightrope between slowing growth and surging inflation.
    与邻国一样，中国正走在钢丝绳上，一边是经济增长放缓，另一边是通胀飙升。
21. The children are breathless as they watch the tightrope act.
    孩子们在看走绳索表演时呼吸都屏住了。
22. His most dangerous stunt was walking the tightrope without a safety net.
    他最惊险的特技表演是在不安置安全网的情况下走钢丝。
23. The crowd gaped at the daring tricks performed by the tightrope walker.
    观众们张大了嘴注视着走绳索人大胆的表演。
24. She dared to walk the tightrope without a net.
    她敢于不用网子走钢丝。
25. Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net.
    身处国外就像走钢丝，高高在上而下面没有安全网接着。
26. The tightrope walker had us on tenterhooks until her reached the safety of the other side.
    在那位走钢丝者安全到达另一边前，我们都一直提心吊胆。
27. I'd tightrope walk with a blindfold on my eyes.
    我想徒步走钢丝的眼睛对我的眼睛。
28. The young acrobat first began to make her mark by walking the tightrope.
    这位年青的杂技演员第一次崭露头角是走钢丝。
29. One of the acrobats who walked the tightrope at the circus did it blindfolded.
    马戏团里走钢丝的杂技演员中有一位蒙着眼睛走钢丝。
30. Two other factors make governing China a tightrope act.
    另外两个因素，使得治理中国变成了一件很悬的事情。

n.

tread/walk a tightrope

• 身处困境；如履薄冰
  to be in a difficult situation in which you do not have much freedom of action and need to be extremely careful about what you do

noun

1. tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground